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{Posted to this site on 2/2/05 }
The Holocaust Commission
of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater
presents
The Eighth Annual
“Elie Wiesel Writing/Visual Arts
Competition for Students”
One of the primary goals of the Holocaust Commission is to encourage young people to apply the lessons of the Holocaust – the importance of moral courage, the dangers of prejudice, peer pressure, unthinking obedience to authority, and indifference – to the moral decisions they make in their own lives today.
The purpose of this competition is to promote Holocaust education and to provide students with an opportunity to think critically about what they have learned.
Cash Prizes will be awarded as follows:
Senior Division (Grades 9,10,11,12) |
Junior Division (Grades 6,7,8) |
First Place : $150 |
First Place: $150 |
| Second Place : $100 | Second Place: $100 |
| Third Place : $75 | Third Place: $75 |
Awards will be presented to the winners at the Community's Annual Holocaust Remembrance Observance on May 5, 2005.
The deadline for entries is Friday, April 1, 2005.
Please mail or deliver entries to:
The United Jewish Federation of Tidewater
“Elie Wiesel Writing Competition”
5000 Corporate Woods Drive Suite 200
Virginia Beach , Va. 23462
Attn: Ronnie Cohen