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How One Girl Scout Is Shining a Light on the Holocaust

JL;DR SUMMARY Lily Sassani, a Girl Scout from Western Pennsylvania, created the Holocaust Education Girl Scout Patch as part of her Gold Award project, the highest recognition in Girl Scouts. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorsHolocaust EducationPittsburghHolocaust ResistanceHolocaust Center Of PittsburghGirl ScoutsLily SassaniGold AwardJewish Women's FoundationGirl Guides

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"Sassanis effort is the fruit of a two-and-a-half-year collaboration with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh."
New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States
"The only Jewish student at her high school in New Kensington, a Pittsburgh suburb, Sassani learned about the little-known Holocaust connection to scouting from a book."
Pennsylvania, United States
"Supported by grants from the Jewish Womens Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh, Sassani worked for nearly a year to design and produce the patch itself."
Florida, United States
"The center also connected Sassani to survivor Edith Leuchter, who had been a Girl Guide in France during the war and today lives in Florida, as well as her Pittsburgh-based daughter, Deborah Leuchter Stueber."
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"It also helped arrange for a University of Pittsburgh professor to review materials for the curriculum."
Penn State, Pennsylvania, United States
"For her part, Sassani, who will study visual communications at Penn State in the fall, hopes that her curriculum and patch can bring Girl Scouts closer with their local Holocaust centers or local survivors."

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