"Jamal McNeil (from left), 14, Amanda Remy, 15, Tasia Sharpe, 18, Diana Cabrera, 15, Serpico Arriaga, 15 and Natasha Flowers, 15. All are from the Global 4 Class at the High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice at the Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex on the Upper West Side. The class needs funding for an educational trip to Germany."
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It's a class trip back in time, a long way from their West Side high school.
Nine black and Latino students are desperately scraping together funds for an 11-day tour of the Nazi death camps, their interest stirred by a class about the Holocaust.
So far, their efforts have fallen short.
But the teens at the High School for Law Advocacy and Community Justice hope to raise almost $17,000 in the next month to pay for the trip.
Sophomore Natasha Flowers, 15, explained that learning about Auschwitz in her global history class changed her view of the world.
"Kingston Ave. - they'd be on the train," she said. "We would laugh at them. Then I learned about the Holocaust and I know what they went through . . . I never made fun of Jews again."
The ninth- and 10th-grade history buffs, all low-income students at the school on W. 66th St., are $16,919 short of the trip's $24,219 cost.
The money is due March 15 for a tour of sites where the Nazis killed millions of Jews during World War II.
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