Projects may be considered for the Holocaust Committee Award, a special prize for projects embodying respect, humbleness, and thoughtfulness for all parties, including victims and perpetrators, of the Holocaust. Please tell your students about this award opportunity, especially if their project meets the below description of what the award committee is looking for.
Note: Not all projects will be eligible for consideration, so please tell them that they do not need to check the box on the registration form if their project would not fit the criteria.
Please read this description and select if you’d like to be considered for the The Holocaust Committee Award; special consideration will be given to projects that focus on:
- Political and societal development of a region which enabled the genocide to occur
- People’s experiences during the Holocaust or genocide (victims and perpetrators)
- Political, societal, individual, and underground resistance movements
- Resilience of victims and survivors
- Life in the aftermath of the Holocaust or genocide
- Forgiveness, related to Holocaust or genocide
- Changes (or continuation) of attitudes and feelings that enabled healing (or not) one to several generations later as life and history move forward
General Tone of project should be:
- Essays, Themed Papers, Posters, Artistic presentations (film, dance, art, and theater) must demonstrate respect, humbleness, and thoughtfulness for all parties, which include both perpetrators and victims.
- All submissions must demonstrate public and personal reflection
- Conjecture, rumor, attitude, feeling, etc. must be distinguished from fact
- All submissions must demonstrate suggestions and a personal commitment to promoting respect among opposing groups and individuals and developing productive and peaceful ways of voicing and resolving differences.
- All submissions must state what the student personally will do to achieve or initiate these goals with a doable timeline.
Consideration for this award will not add more work to anyone’s current research project. For example: register for the category that you have discussed with your advisor and check this box for additional consideration.
Thank you,
The Holocaust Committee
Corrie Trattner, Holocaust Committee Chair
David McMahon, Nina Dini, Simone Alter-Muri, Julia Rizzo, Agnessa Luzgin, Joseph Berger, Joseph Wronka, Efraim Eisen, and Stephen Posner.