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Students in two Virginia locales can enter Holocaust academic competitions in several categories. Separate competitions and judging are conducted on the Virginia Peninsula and the Virginia Southside.
Teachers in both locales can be awarded classroom books, depending on the number of their students who enter the competitions. Teachers on the Virginia Southside also can enter a separate competition based on “Excellence in Holocaust Education”.
Students and teachers from other locales are not eligible to enter those competitions.
Cash prizes up to $150.00 will be awarded to winning students in each category. Other prizes will be awarded to winning teachers.
VIRGINIA PENINSULA WRITING COMPETITION (2007)
Middle school and high school students on the Virginia Peninsula ( Gloucester, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, Williamsburg, and York County) can enter Holocaust writing competitions. The students can be enrolled in public school, private school, or they can be home schooled. Separate judging will be conducted for middle school and high school students, with a top prize of $150.00 in each division.
This competition can assist in preparing students for the Virginia SOL tests by addressing by addressing specific SOLs listed in the instruction booklet. Complete details, including submission deadlines, can be found by selecting:
PENINSULA WRITING COMPETITION (2007).
VIRGINIA SOUTHSIDE WRITING and VISUAL ARTS COMPETITIONS
Middle school and high school students on the Virginia Southside ( Chesapeake , Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach ) can enter both the writing competition and a visual arts competition. The students can be enrolled in public school, private school, or they can be home schooled. Separate judging will be conducted for middle school and high school students, with a top prize of $150.00 in each division.
This competition can assist in preparing students for the Virginia SOL tests by addressing by addressing specific SOLs listed in the instruction booklet. Complete details, including submission deadlines, can be found by selecting:
SOUTHSIDE WRITING COMPETITION (2007) and
SOUTHSIDE VISUAL ARTS COMPETITION (2007)
Teachers on the Southside also can enter a separate competition for “Excellence in Holocaust Education”. Complete details, including submission deadlines, can be found by selecting:
SOUTHSIDE TEACHER COMPETITION (2007).
Entries for each of the Virginia Southside competitions also can be accessed from the SOUTHSIDE HOME PAGE
These entries can be accessed from directly by selecting the links above. This information is also available on the Site Map.
The United Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula is presenting its “Fifth Annual Holocaust Writing Competition for Students.” It is open to all public, private, and home schooled students in either middle school or high School. Participation in this specific competition is limited to schools/students on the Virginia Peninsula . Schools in other localities are free to use the information/instruction package for their own use at no cost or obligation. If others use the material, we would appreciate it if you would let us know via e-mail to the following address: info@Holocaust-trc.org
The Holocaust Commission
of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater
presents:
The Eighth Annual “Elie Wiesel Writing/Visual Arts
Competition for Students”
Student Writing Announcement
Teachers' Awards for Excellence Announcement
Students Writing Booklet 2005
January, 2004
The United Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula presents:
THE
PIANIST was adapted by U.K. playwright/screenwriter Ronald Harwood (“The
Dresser”) from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish
Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A celebrated composer
and pianist, he played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves
before Nazi artillery hit. During the brutal occupation, he eluded deportation
and remained in the devastated Warsaw Ghetto. There, he struggled to
stay alive even when cast away from those he loved. He would eventually
reclaim his artistic gifts, and confront his fears, with aid from the
unlikeliest source – a German officer who helped him hide in the
final days of the war.Adrien Brody (“Summer of Sam,” “The Thin Red Line”) portrays Mr. Szpilman. The supporting cast includes Thomas Kretschmann (“Blade II”), Frank Finlay (“The Four Musketeers”), Maureen Lipman (“Educating Rita”), Emilia Fox (the “David Copperfield” mini-series), Ed Stoppard (“The Little Vampire”), Julia Rayner (“Topsy-Turvy”), and newcomer Jessica Kate Meyer.
FRANCE
(PARIS) THE NETHERLANDS GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC AUSTRIA
JUNE 26, 2002 THROUGH JULY 9, 2002
Escorted
14 day visit to five countries, nine Holocaust sites and three national
capitals is offered by
The Greater Cincinnati Interfaith Holocaust Foundation.
Call (513) 489-1177 and ask for Ellen Fettner
Mandel Teacher Fellowship Program
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Deadline Past: February 15, 2002
The Mandel
Teacher Fellowship Program, a seven-year program funded in 1996 by a generous
gift from the Mandel Associated Foundations, is developing a national
corps of skilled secondary school educators who will serve as leaders
in Holocaust education in their schools, their communities, and their
professional organizations. For each year of the program, up to twenty-five
educators in grades 7 through 12 will be designated as Mandel Fellows.
These educators must show evidence of extensive knowledge of Holocaust
history, successful teaching
experience, and participation in community and professional organizations.
They will participate in a five-day, all-expense paid summer Institute
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, designed
to immerse participants in advanced historical and pedagogical issues.
Following the summer Institute, Fellows are expected to create and implement
an outreach project in their schools, communities, or professional organizations.
In May of the following year, Fellows will attend a follow-up program
at the Museum to assess their various efforts and to continue their study
of the Holocaust with Museum staff and noted speakers. Fellows will then
have an opportunity to apply for funds to support projects that promote
teaching and learning about the Holocaust.
History, Social Studies, English, and Foreign Language teachers, as well
as Librarians and Instructional Media Specialists, are encouraged to apply
for Mandel Teacher Fellowships. Other content areas will be considered
as well. It is expected that teachers will have taught the Holocaust for
a minimum of five years. Teachers must teach in United States schools.
For more information contact:
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Daniel Napolitano, Coordinator, Mandel Teacher Fellowship Program
phone (202) 314-7853, fax (202) 314-7888
e-mail: dnapolitano@ushmm.org or
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write to: Mandel Teacher Fellowship Program, Education Division,
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW,
Washington, D.C. 20024
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Information is available on the web
at: http://www.ushmm.org: Education / For Teachers /Professional Development