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Posted By admin on March 30, 2024

For her efforts to educate young people about the Holocaust, a Moorpark High School student won a prestigious award from the nonprofit David Labkovski Project.

Based in West Hills, DLP seeks to combat antisemitism by teaching students about the Holocaust through art. The project is based on the life and works of artist David Labkovski (1906-1991), engaging viewers with his paintings and sketches to share lessons of life, survival, tolerance, acceptance and the importance of bearing witness to history.

More than 5,000 students have been reached through its programs.

During its eighth annual Scholars Event on March 17 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, DLP organizers named MHS junior Katia Lysobey as one of two recipients of the Ellie Lainer Youth Leadership Award in Holocaust Education. Both Katia and de Toledo High Schools Sophie Small have been involved in bringing the DLP program to their peers and community.

The award is named for Encino resident and DLP founding supporter Ellie Lainer.

Leora Raikin, Labkovskis great niece and DLP founder, said Katia, upon completing the DLP student docent and leadership training program, took it upon herself to bring the program and exhibit to Temple Etz Chaim (in Thousand Oaks), and thereafter lectured to her religious school student program confirmation class.

Katia is now an ambassador for the David Labkovski Project and mentors new students in the program.

Katia, since becoming a youth ambassador for DLP, has been a docent at the USC campus and the Skirball as part of the exhibit Documenting History Through Art, Raikin said.

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Student named Holocaust education award winner - Moorpark Acorn

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