30 | MARCH 17 • 2022
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or 11 years,
Emma Beach
has been a
member of the
Girl Scouts, a
youth organi-
zation with more
than 10 million mem-
bers worldwide.
The 14-year-old
Rochester resident,
like many other Girl
Scouts, has made
it a mission to help
make the world a
better place — a
core building block
of the Girl Scouts
program. Yet for the
teen, who is of Asian
descent and grew up
in a Catholic family,
teaching the lessons
of the Holocaust were
of utmost importance,
especially to other
young people her age.
Last year on Zoom,
Beach put together a
presentation with the help
of her mentor, Brenda
Rosenberg, an author, for-
mer Girl Scouts member and
expert in interfaith commu-
nication, to share the lessons
of the Holocaust with 40
other Girl Scout members.
Beach’s project, which took
60 hours to complete, won
her a GS Silver Award, the
highest award for her age
group.
“I made a project about
the Holocaust, what caused
it and what we can learn
from it,” Beach explains of
her work, “so things like that
don’t happen anymore.”
Presented to youth across
the United States in grades
4-12, “Stop Hate! Lessons to
Learn from the Holocaust”
was designed to teach partic-
ipants how to use knowledge
of the Holocaust to help stop
hate in our current society.
Activities included learn-
ing about how Jewish people
14-year-old Girl Scout wins award
for project on Holocaust.
Stop
Stop
ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Emma
Beach
Hate!