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2004 May Family National Art & Writing Contest
Student and Teacher Letter
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Dear Student and Teacher:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce the 2004 May Family Art and Writing Contest. We ask you to use our Web site (www.ushmm.org, find resource links below) to research the topic of the question. For example, explore the “For Students” section under “Education.” This section of the Web site contains previous contest questions and images of winning entries.
A section entitled “The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students” contains historical information, photographs, maps, and audio clips of survivor testimony. There are also other areas to browse and gather information that will help you answer the contest question and create your entry. Look in the “Holocaust Learning Center” for more historical information, photographs, and oral histories. Under the “Research” section, you can search the Museum’s document and photographic archives, and the “Library” section has an online search tool that allows you to search its holdings.
Contest entries are judged for content, originality, creativity, presentation, and historical accuracy.
Once you gather the needed information and complete your entry, please review the requirements and guidelines for entering the contest below or in the “For Students” section of the Web site. Make sure to include a completed entry form in your package.
Good luck! We look forward to receiving your entry!
Education Division Staff
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photos, top to bottom: Gitta Rosenzweig was discovered in a Catholic orphanage after the war. In 1942, she had been found wandering in the Polish countryside and was taken to a children’s home, where she was given the name “Maria Czekanska.” Biata Podlaska, Poland, August 1946. USHMM, gift of Gitta Rosenzweig;
Two hidden Jewish children, Beatrix Westheimer and her cousin Henri Hurwitz, with Catholic priest Adelin Vaes, on the occasion of Beatrix’s First Communion. Ottignies, Belgium, May 1943. Beatrice Muchman;
Rajala Lederman and her daughter Annette in Brussels, Belgium, shortly before Annette was placed in hiding with a Christian family. USHMM, courtesy of Annette Lederman Linzer;
In 1942, Henrietta and Herman Goslinski went into hiding to avoid deportation from the Netherlands. Because their rescuer could not take their infant daughter Berty, the Dutch resistance moved her frequently. During the two-and-a-half years apart, the parents saw Berty only once and received this lone photograph. Bertie Levkowitz
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Resources:
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An online encyclopedia containing articles, film, photographs, individual histories, survivor testimony, chronologies, maps, artifacts, music, and links to resources.
Children
Anne Frank
Rescue
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A thematic arrangement of dozens of testimony excerpts and identification cards.
Children
Hiding
Aid and Escape
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Online catalogs provide partial access to some of the Museum’s collections.
Search the Collections
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