Friday, March 6
Memorial Hall
10th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest
Awards Ceremony
Witnesses to the Holocaust:
Identities Shattered – Identities Shaped
11 a.m.


(NOTE: Very limited seating for the ceremony in Memorial Hall may be available after visiting students, teachers and parents are seated. Seating for the film screenings is open.)

Nearly 5,000 middle school and high school students from throughout Southern California, representing a record 93 schools, participated in this year’s Holocaust Art and Writing Contest, presented by Chapman University’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and sponsored by The “1939” Club, the Samueli Foundation and Yossie and Dana Hollander. Participating students submitted prose, poems and artwork about the Holocaust, based on this year’s theme of “Identities Shattered – Identities Shaped.” A panel of distinguished judges – including honorary national judge, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel – has selected the winners, who will be announced at the Memorial Hall ceremony. President Jim Doti will welcome the visiting students, teachers and parents, and Dr. Marilyn Harran, Chapman’s Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and director of the Rodgers Center, and other speakers will offer thoughts and congratulations. Natalie Weinstein Gold, a child survivor of the Holocaust whose compelling story has been told in Chapman’s Pinnacle magazine, will give the morning’s keynote address, “Who Am I?” Following the ceremony, student participants will have the opportunity to meet and talk in depth with Holocaust survivors from Southern California’s “1939” Club. A screening of the documentaries Testimony of Triumph and A Child on Schindler’s List will also follow in Memorial Hall. Information: 714-628-7377 or www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation