On Friday, March 11, at the Awards Ceremony of the Annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest organized by the Chapman University’s Rodgers Center American and international students were recognized for their artistic efforts inspired by Survivors’ Testimonies. This was the 23rd year of the competition, this year entitled “Turning Memory to Strength. Living with hope, courage and resilience.” The participants were encouraged to consider the message shared by the Survivors and ways of transmitting it through artistic means: film, art, poetry and prose.

This year, the competition committee recognized the work of a Polish student from Warsaw, whose film received second place.

In addition, the school, Frycz Modrzewski Bilingual High School no 17, the students and her teachers won the first in the competition’s history International School Award. This award means to honor the efforts of the school and its staff in education about the Holocaust, and the students special accomplishment. What is more, another Polish student, this time from Nasielsk, was among the finalists in the prose category. Congratulations to all finalists and awardees for their important projects.