CONGRATULATIONS to this year's WINNERS:

Essay Results:

Elementary School
1st place: Gabrielle Myers, Lukeville Upper Elementary
2nd place: Zaira Garcia, Wedgewood Elementary
3rd place: Laurel Fishburn, Lukeville Upper Elementary

Middle School
1st place: Blanca Lopez, Woodlawn Middle School
2nd place: Rachael Edmonson, Woodlawn Middle School
3rd place: Dixon Lin, Woodlawn Middle School

High School
1st place: Claire Young, Parkview Baptist School
2nd place: Victoria Rawlins, Parkview Baptist School
3rd place: Lauren Desemar, Parkview Baptist School
 

Art Results
Middle School
1st place: Yana Tkacheva Kuzmina, The Dunham School
2nd place: Madison Brooks, Most Blessed Sacrament
3rd place: Giselle Doucet, Baton Rouge International School

High School
1st place: Sydney Bonfils, Baton Rouge International School
2nd place: Manon Doucet, Baton Rouge International School
3rd place: Kelsey Barker, St. Amant High School

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This year, younger students who particpate in the Holocaust Writing Contest will be given the opportunity to express their thoughts about a film presentation of "Porceline Unicorn," while older students will be discussing and designing Holocaust Memorials.

There are three divisions in the contest: the lower school division (3rd-5th grade), the middle school division (6th -8th grade), and the high school division (9th-12th grade).

The entry deadline is March 16.

Entries are to be mailed or delivered to: Holocaust Writing Contest, Educational Services Department, The Advocate, 7290 Bluebonnet Blvd., P.O. Box 588 Baton Rouge, LA 70810.

Winners of the contest will be contacted by April 1.  Please make sure all contact information is included with each submission.  Prizes will be awarded at a special Holocaust Memorial Service on Sunday, April 15, at Beth Shalom Synagogue from 4:00pm-6:00pm.  The Synagogue is located at 9111 Jefferson Hwy.

Those students/teachers that wish to have their entries returned, must attend the program.  Artwork may be picked up at the end of the program.  Essays will not be returned.

Prizes:

1st place - $100 Savings Bond, $50 Cash

2nd place - $75 Savings Bond, $25 Cash

3rd place - $75 Savings Bond, $20 Cash

The contest is co-sponsored by The Education Services Department of The Advocate and The Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge.

If you have any questions, please contact Eveylyn Huckaby at 388.0228, or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or you may contact Ellen Sager, at The Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge, 379.7393 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

The Holocaust 2012 Art & Writing Contest

During the Holocaust, the Nazis identified people by what group they thought a person should belong to,  This identification was represented by different colored fabric which was cut into a triangle and sewn on the outside of a person's clothing.  Jewish people were forced to wear a yellow star of David; criminals wore an upside-down green triangle; gypsies wore an upside-down brown triangle; and Jehovah's Witnesses wore and upside-down purple triangle.  The purpose of marking people this way was so that the Nazis could see at a distance what group someone belonged to.  The German people, even young children, were taught to mistrust people who were indentified with any of these groups, and in fact, German children were encouraged to be mean and cruel to children who were identified as belonging to one of these groups.

Grades 3-5 (Porcelain Unicorn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRMcPJrWm-g

After watching "Porcelain Unicorn," think about these questions and write a short essay: Why do you think the girl gave the unicorn to the boy? Why do you think the boy picked up the pieces of the unicorn and glued it back together? He must have saved the unicorn for many years in order to return it to the girl when she was an old woman.  Why do you think he returned it to her? What do you think they spoke about when they met again?

Grades 6-12 (Holocaust Memorials Around the World) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLhN7oBv5s

After watching the video "Holocaust Memorials Around the World," think about the Holocaust.  Pick out a particular memorial and write an essay about whether you think this memorial was important to the artist or designed to inform the public about the Holocaust.  

Or, after watching the video, design your own memorial incuding a brief description as to whether your memorial is important to you personally or meant to educate the public about the Holocaust.  Or you can design a piece of art as a memorial.  Artwork can be two or three dimensional and must be able to fit through a door.