Every summer for the past 19 years, teen student producers have met to decide a theme for the annual Holocaust Impact Theater production. The new show, called PLEDGE, will be performed at 7 p.m., March 7-9 at the Alper JCC Miami’s Robert Russell Theater, 11155 SW 112nd Ave. This project, a labor of love and hours of dedication, continues to build a legacy of teen education and empowerment with the underlying goal of promoting Holocaust education and remembrance.
In 2004, Holocaust Impact Theater (HIT) embarked on a mission to educate and inspire teens through the power of the arts. Now in its 19th year of production, HIT continues to provide local high school students a platform to write, produce, perform and direct original scripts dealing with timely, relevant issues of social injustice and
“We’re taking away [students’] ability to think critically and to know there are many sides to an issue,” Mayade Ersoff, a history teacher at Palmetto Middle School in Pinecrest