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StoryWill You Make Yours toTell? Awards Ceremony I March 10, 2017 18th Annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest

SPONSORED BY Chapman University The Samueli Foundation The 1939 Society, a Community of Holocaust Yossie and Dana Hollander Survivors, Descendants, and Friends Leon and Deborah Drucker

WITH SUPPORT FROM USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Anti-Defamation League Facing History and Ourselves Catholic Schools, Diocese of Orange National Foundation, Inc. College of Educational Studies, Orange County Department of Education Chapman University Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and David Labkovski Project Social Sciences, Chapman University Echoes and Reflections

IN COLLABORATION WITH Forum for Dialogue, Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles Johannesburg Holocaust and Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Genocide Center, South Africa Holocaust Education Centre, Canada Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM Publications International, Ltd.

We extend our appreciation to Sodexo for We are grateful to Chapman University their generous contribution to the reception Enrollment Services for donating Chapman following the Awards Ceremony. University t-shirts to contest finalists. The Holocaust Art and Writing Contest was launched in 1999 as a partnership between the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University and The “1939” Club, now The 1939 Society, a Community of Holocaust Survivors, Descendants, and Friends. Each year, the contest has grown, now including 250 public, private, and parochial schools across the nation and several countries. This growth would not have been possible without the extraordinary support of the Samueli Foundation. Thanks to the generosity of Dana and Yossie Hollander, we are able to offer first-place students and their teachers an expense-paid study trip to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum and other sites in Washington, D.C. A special word of appreciation must go to Louis Weber and Publications International for their years of extraordinary support and the over 7,000 copies of The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures they have donated. Thanks to Publications International, each student representative has the opportunity to receive a book signed by the Holocaust survivors attending the awards ceremony and reception. With these signatures, each book becomes a unique testimony to the memories created on this very special day in which witnesses to the Holocaust meet their witnesses to the future.

Beth Kean March 10, 2017 Interim Executive Director Dear Guests,

Beth Kean As the President of Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) and the grandchild President of Holocaust Survivors, it is an honor to join Chapman University in welcoming you to Andrea Cayton th Vice-President the 18 Annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest Awards Ceremony. LAMOTH was

Paul Nussbaum founded by Holocaust Survivors who understood the importance of personal narratives Treasurer and educating future generation of students on this history. This contest teaches

Paulette Nessim students about the Holocaust while providing them with a unique opportunity to Secretary engage with Holocaust Survivor testimony. During this process the students become stewards of this important history and share the Survivor’s narrative through their own Board of Directors Paula Bennett creative interpretation. Robert Geminder Michele Gold Melinda Goldrich I commend Marilyn Harran and Chapman University for engaging such a large, diverse Perla Karney group of students from all over the world to participate in this innovative and Marcia Levenson Robert Liebesman meaningful program. Thank you for bringing the community together to reflect and Guy Lipa* Peter Mandell learn from the past and provide the space for us to discuss the importance of Gregory McKay acceptance, open-mindedness and social justice. Through this opportunity students can Galit Prince* Jamie Rosenblood strive to create a more dignified and humane world for younger generations. Joan Sanders Frank Schiller Lora Silverman I’d like to congratulate all of the participants for their hard work and extraordinary Steven Taylor projects. I look to the future with hope and pride knowing that you are shaping the Yaniv Tepper David Wiener future of Holocaust education and remembrance.

Honorary Directors Osias Goren z”l Masha Loen z l Dr. Harvey Martz With gratitude, Dr. Gary J. Schiller E. Randol Schoenberg Beth Kean Survivor Advisory Board Miriam Bell z”l Lidia Budgor President Edith Frankie Robert Geminder Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Jona Goldrich z l Marie Kaufman Gregory McKay Dana Schwartz David Wiener

* 3G@LAMOTH Representatives

Even Yehuda, Berlin, Germany Walworth Barbour American Haifa, Israel Canisius-Kolleg Berlin Beit Biram–The Hebrew Reali High School International School

We proudly welcome students and educators from these registered international schools to the 18th Annual Holocaust Selangor, Malaysia Art and Writing Contest. Subang Jaya, Sekolah Menengah City, Mexico Greengates School Kebangsaan Seafield

Mandaluyong City, Philippines San Pedro City, Philippines Wielun, Poland Don Bosco Technical College Casa Del Niño Montessori & Science High School Janusz Korczak High School No. 2

Zamosc, Poland Bucharest, Romania Gauteng, South Africa Secondary School No. 2 Saint Sava National College Johannesburg, Redhill High School I have a Chapman University and The 1939 Society The 18th Annual Holocaust Storyto­ Tell Art and Writing Contest

Music by the Orange County Klezmers

Welcome ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Daniele C. Struppa President, Chapman University

Introductions �������������������������������������������������������������� Marilyn Harran Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Director, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Chapman University

Special Greetings ������������������������������������������������������ Glenn Pfeiffer Provost, Chapman University

William Elperin President, The 1939 Society

Participants, Middle School Division �������������� Patrick Fuery Dean, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Chapman University

Participants, High School Division �������������������� Margaret Grogan .Dean, College of Educational Studies, Chapman University

How Will I Know Who These People Are? ���������� Esther Safran Foer Senior Advisor, Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Washington, D.C. Daughter of Holocaust Survivors

Esther Safran Foer Esther in a displaced persons camp in Germany, 1948. Announcement of Division Winners Prose Category

MIDDLE SCHOOL...... Lindsay Friedman First and Second Prize Partnership Director, Echoes and Reflections Reading of First Prize HIGH SCHOOL...... Dan Alba First and Second Prize Senior Program Associate, Facing History and Ourselves Reading of First Prize

Poetry Category

MIDDLE SCHOOL...... Beth Kean First and Second Prize Board President, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Reading of First Prize HIGH SCHOOL First and Second Prize Reading of First Prize

Art Category

MIDDLE SCHOOL...... William Elperin First and Second Prize President, The 1939 Society Reading of First Prize HIGH SCHOOL First and Second Prize Reading of First Prize

Film Category

MIDDLE SCHOOL...... Kori Street First and Second Prize Director of Education, USC Shoah Foundation - Reading of First Prize Statement The Institute for Visual History and Education HIGH SCHOOL First and Second Prize Reading of First Prize Statement

Congratulations �������������������������������������������������������� Daniele C. Struppa Closing Thoughts ������������������������������������������������������ Marilyn Harran

Distribution of certificates and prizes to student representatives and teachers will follow the awards ceremony in the lobby of Memorial Hall. Reception in the tent located outside of Memorial Hall. Non-finalist artworks will be available for pick-up in the lobby of Memorial Hall.

Join us next year for the 19th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest Friday, March 9, 2018 I 11 a.m. Registered

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We encourage all our visitors today to visit the exhibit Holocaust Survivors: The Indestructible Spirit on the Second and Fourth Floors of the Leatherby Libraries.

Photography by Bill Aron. Summaries by Dr. Marilyn Harran with research assistance from Chapman University students. This exhibit is made possible by a generous gift from Irving and Nancy Chase in honor of Sol (z”l) and Fay Chase (z”l). THE 18th ANNUAL HOLOCAUST ART AND WRITING CONTEST

Registered Middle Schools–

Aliso Viejo Hesperia St. Mary's School Shadow Ridge Independent Study Anaheim Huntington Beach Acaciawood College Preparatory Brethren Christian School Academy Mesa View Middle School Betsy Ross Elementary School Spring View Middle School Fairmont Private Schools: Historic St. Bonaventure Catholic School Anaheim Campus Stacey Middle School Independence Christian School Sts. Simon & Jude School James Guinn Elementary School Talbert Middle School James Madison Elementary School Irvine Schools­ St. Justin Martyr Parish School Lakeside Middle School Anaheim Hills Plaza Vista Middle School Trinity Lutheran Christian School South Lake Middle School Beverly Hills Ladera Ranch Good Shepherd Catholic School Ladera Ranch Middle School Brea La Habra Brea Junior High School Our Lady of Guadalupe School St. Angela Merici Parish School Washington Middle School Buena Park Laguna Beach St. Pius V Catholic School St. Catherine of Siena Parish School Capistrano Beach Thurston Middle School San Clemente Christian School Pico Rivera Santa Ana Laguna Niguel St. Hilary Elementary School MacArthur Fundamental Corona del Mar Intermediate School St. Anne School Placentia Harbor Day School School of Our Lady Kraemer Middle School Lakewood St. Anne Parish School Costa Mesa Parkview School Hoover Middle School St. Barbara Catholic School Mariners Christian School St. Joseph Catholic School St. Joachim Catholic School Long Beach Tuffree Middle School Spring Valley St. John the Baptist Catholic Alexander Hamilton Middle School Tynes Elementary School Spring Valley Academy School Valadez Middle School Academy Los Angeles Stanton Cypress Los Angeles Academy Middle Porterville Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy Juliet Morris Elementary School School Hope Elementary School Lexington Junior High School Tustin Menifee St. Irenaeus Parish School Rancho Palos Verdes Currie Middle School Ethan A. Chase Middle School St. John Fisher School Pioneer Middle School Dana Point Moreno Valley Red Hill Lutheran School St. Edward the Confessor Parish Rancho Santa Margarita Vista Heights Middle School St. Cecilia School School St. John's Episcopal School Northridge St. Junipero Serra Catholic School Villa Park Fountain Valley Abraham Joshua Heschel Day Villa Park Elementary School Vista View Middle School Redlands School Foundation Christian School Walnut Fullerton Novato Sage Oak Charter School South Pointe Middle School Beechwood Elementary School Sinaloa Middle School SoCal Christian School D. Russell Parks Junior High School Westminster Ladera Vista Junior High School Orange San Clemente Blessed Sacrament School Our Lady of Fatima Parish School of the Arts Holy Family Cathedral School Whittier La Purisima Catholic School Galt San Diego Hillview Middle School Santiago Charter Middle School McCaffrey Middle School San Diego Jewish Academy St. John’s Lutheran School Yorba Linda Garden Grove St. Norbert Catholic School San Dimas Bernardo Yorba Middle School Christ Cathedral Academy Yorba Academy of the Arts Lone Hill Middle School St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School Izaak Walton Intermediate School Travis Ranch School Perris San Juan Capistrano James Irvine Intermediate School Yorba Linda Middle School Lakeside Middle School Mission Basilica School Orange Crescent School St. Columban School THE 18th ANNUAL HOLOCAUST ART AND WRITING CONTEST

Registered High Schools–California

Aliso Viejo Encinitas La Palma Rolling Hills Estates Shalom School of Encinitas John F. Kennedy High School Palos Verdes Peninsula High School Anaheim Fountain Valley Laguna Hills Acaciawood College Preparatory Los Amigos High School San Diego Academy New Vista School St. Augustine High School Fremont Canyon High School Westview High School Mission San Jose High School Lake Forest San Jacinto Fullerton Mountain Heights Academy Fullerton Union High School Long Beach Mountain View Alternative Western High School Millikan High School High School Polytechnic High School Banning Hawthorne Sierra Vista High School San Juan Capistrano Banning High School Hawthorne Math & Science Capistrano Connections Academy Academy Mission Viejo Brea JSerra Catholic School Trabuco Hills High School Brea Olinda High School Hesperia Saddleback Valley Christian Canyon Ridge High School Montebello Schools Corona Shadow Ridge High School Schurr High School Santiago High School San Marcos Irvine Moreno Valley High Tech High North County Costa Mesa Arnold O. Beckman High School Valley View High School Early College High School Santa Ana Crean Lutheran High School Vista del Lago High School Foothill High School Cypress Tarbut V’Torah Community Murrieta Orange County School of the Arts Oxford Academy Day School Calvary Chapel Christian University High School Diamond Bar Academy (ISP) Woodbridge High School South Tahoe Diamond Bar High School Ojai South Tahoe High School Laurel Springs School Temecula Orange Great Oak High School Orange High School Thousand Oaks Richland Continuation High School La Reina High School Tustin Placentia El Camino Real High School El Dorado High School Van Nuys Parkview School Los Angeles Hebrew High School Valencia High School Visalia Rancho Santa Margarita Tulare County Office of Education Santa Margarita Catholic Court/Community Schools High School West Hills de Toledo High School Yorba Linda La Entrada High School

AFTER SCHOOL MENTORING PROGRAMS Irvine ICON Art & Design Los Angeles Art Student Services THE 18th ANNUAL HOLOCAUST ART AND WRITING CONTEST

Registered Middle Schools–National

ARIZONA ILLINOIS Lawrenceville TENNESSEE Queen Creek Oak Lawn St. Ann School Memphis Sossaman Middle School Oak Lawn Hometown Long Valley Snowden School Scottsdale Middle School Long Valley Middle School TEXAS Rancho Solano Preparatory Princeton MAINE Alvord School St. Paul School of Princeton Windsor Alvord Middle School Warren COLORADO Windsor Elementary School Austin Warren Middle School Fort Collins West Ridge Middle School NEW HAMPSHIRE Kinard Core Knowledge NEW MEXICO Durham WISCONSIN Middle School Roswell Oyster River Middle School Kiel Sidney Gutierrez Middle School CONNECTICUT 3-D Academy Middle School NEW JERSEY Bridgeport PENNSYLVANIA Burlington Great Oaks Charter School Knox Burlington Township Middle Keystone Junior High School School at Springside Registered High Schools–National

ARIZONA IOWA NEVADA Tulsa Chandler Ankeny Las Vegas Riverfield Country Day School Hamilton High School Ankeny Centennial High School The Dr. Miriam and Sheldon PENNSYLVANIA Mesa G. Adelson Educational IDAHO Abington Dobson High School Campus St. Anthony Abington High School ARKANSAS South Fremont High School NEW JERSEY Alverton Kenai Clark Southmoreland High School ILLINOIS Nikiski Middle/High School Arthur L. Johnson High School Bethlehem Niles Lawrence Township Bethlehem Catholic High School COLORADO Notre Dame College Prep Notre Dame High School Claysville Golden KENTUCKY New Milford McGuffey High School Golden High School Walton New Milford High School Knox Lakewood Walton Verona High School Pleasantville Keystone Senior High School Jefferson County Open School Pleasantville High School McSherrytown MARYLAND CONNECTICUT Vineland Delone Catholic High School Bethesda Bloomfield Vineland High School South York Walt Whitman High School Metropolitan Learning Center West York Area High School NEW MEXICO MASSACHUSETTS FLORIDA Santa Fe TENNESSEE Harvard Fort Lauderdale Pojoaque Valley High School Knoxville The Bromfield School Fort Lauderdale High School South Doyle High School Lexington NEW YORK Pensacola Maryville Lexington High School Great Neck West Florida High School of Maryville Christian School North Shore Hebrew Advanced Technology MICHIGAN Academy High School TEXAS Tallahassee Ann Arbor Nedrow Austin Maclay School Pioneer High School Onondaga Nation School Westwood High School Battle Creek GEORGIA Skaneateles Houston Lakeview High School Skaneateles High School KIPP Northeast College Atlanta Jewish Academy MINNESOTA Preparatory Academy NORTH CAROLINA Johns Creek Brooklyn Park San Antonio Gastonia Chattahoochee High School Hennepin Gateway to College North East School of the Arts Ashbrook High School Savannah MISSOURI Raleigh VIRGINIA Woodville Tompkins Technical Springfield Wake Young Women’s Staunton and Career High School Springfield Central High School Leadership Academy Robert E. Lee High School HAWAII OKLAHOMA Kailua WISCONSIN Oklahoma City Le Jardin Academy Wauwatosa Classen School of Advanced Wauwatosa East High School Studies THE 18th ANNUAL HOLOCAUST ART AND WRITING CONTEST

Registered High Schools–International

GERMANY PHILIPPINES Berlin Mandaluyong City Canisius-Kolleg Berlin Don Bosco Technical College San Pedro City ISRAEL Casa Del Niño Montessori & Even Yehuda Science High School Walworth Barbour American International School POLAND Haifa Wielun Beit Biram – The Hebrew Reali Janusz Korczak High High School School No. 2 Zamosc MALAYSIA Secondary School No. 2 Selangor Subang Jaya ROMANIA Sekolah Menengah Bucharest Kebangsaan Seafield Saint Sava National College MEXICO SOUTH AFRICA Gauteng Greengates School Johannesburg Redhill High School

Contest Judges

Shannon Annarella Deborah Batiste Nancy Chase Screenwriting Major, Dodge College Project Director, Echoes and Reflections, Community Volunteer; Co-Benefactor, of Film and Media Arts and University Anti-Defamation League "The Indestructible Spirit" photography Honors Minor, Chapman University; Julye Bidmead and memoir project First Place Poetry, Middle School Director, Fellowships & Scholar Gregory Dhuyvetter Division, 2009 Program, Office of the Provvost; Superintendent of Catholic Schools, Tracey Armstrong Associate Professor, Department of Diocese of Orange Managing Editor, Jlife Magazine and Religious Studies, Wilkinson College of William Elperin Editor in Chief, Kiddish Magazine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Los Angeles Attorney-at-Law; President, Sherry Bard Jeff Brouwer The 1939 Society Training Specialist, Echoes and Director of Creative Services, Strategic Natalie Figueroa Reflections, Anti-Defamation League Marketing & Communications, English Major and Self-Designed Chapman University Holocaust Studies Major, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Chapman University THE 18th ANNUAL HOLOCAUST ART AND WRITING CONTEST

Contest Judges (continued)

Barbara Gard Beth Kean NATIONAL HONORARY Retired Teacher, Trabuco Hills High Board President, Los Angeles JUDGE, 2007-2016 School Museum of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel, z”l Ildi Good Jon Kean Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Holocaust Survivor and Witness, Writer and Director, Swimming in Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Hungary Auschwitz and After Auschwitz: The Chapman University, 2011-2015 Marilyn Harran Stories of Six Women Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Connor Kridle HONORARY JUDGES Director, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Political Science Major; Holocaust Education; Professor of Religious History Minor, Wilkinson College of Natalie Weinstein Gold Studies and History, Chapman Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Psychotherapist; Child Survivor; University Chapman University Member of The 1939 Society; Benefactor Mary Robinson Hendra Natalie Lawler Associate Program Director for Los Curator, Art Collections, Chapman Dana Hollander Angeles and Organizational Innovation, University Benefactor; Community Volunteer; Sponsor of Echoes and Reflections Facing History and Ourselves Mike Lefkowitz Holocaust Education Program Dayna Herz President, The Semel Group; Investment Officer, H&S Ventures, LLC Community Volunteer Marie Kaufman Child Survivor; President, Child Fr. Jerry Horan Jack Pariser Survivors of the Holocaust, Los Angeles Vicar for Faith Formation, Founder and Activist for Precluding Diocese of Orange Genocide Project; Child Survivor and Mila Page Founding Member, The "1939" Club, Eileen Jankowski Witness, Poland now The 1939 Society; Member of Assistant Professor (retired), Marianne Petersen Schindler's "List" Department of English, Wilkinson Retired Teacher, Orange High School. Sally Roisman College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Leora Raikin Award-winning Artist; Member of The Sciences, Chapman University Founder and Executive Director, David 1939 Society Labkovsi Project Susan Samueli Heather Schlossnagle Co-Founder and President, Samueli Producer, Panther Productions, Foundation Chapman University Sally Schwartz Lindsay Shen Benefactor, The Jerry and Sally Director of University Art Collections, Schwartz Holocaust and Tolerance Chapman University Education Fund, managed by the Kori Street Community Foundation of the Jewish Director of Education, USC Shoah Federation of Orange County Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education Stephanie Wolfson Director of Education, David Labkovski Project An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance in Words, Music, Dance, and Film With a Special Tribute to Elie Wiesel Lighting of Candles of Remembrance

MUSIC Daniel Alfred Wachs, Director of Orchestral Activities, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, College of Performing Arts, Chapman University Iman Khosrowpour, Conductor, Symphony Orchestra and Violin Faculty, Irvine Valley College

REFLECTIONS Rabbi Elie Spitz, Congregation B'nai Israel, Tustin Dr. Gail Stearns, Dean of the Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Chapman University Dr. Marilyn Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education, Chapman University

CHOREOGRAPHY Cristina McKeever, Dance Performance Major, College of Performing Arts, Chapman University, '17

SCREENING Memory Keepers with Documentary Filmmaker Molly Blank Turning a Blind Eye, Herz Allegrio, 2009 April 20 I 7 p.m. Chapman Auditorium I Memorial Hall I Chapman University

Admission is Free The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education (714) 532-7760 or www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation