Opportunities
The CUJF Holocaust Education Center provides scholarships for educators to attend Holocaust education workshops. We also advertise Holocaust art and writing competitions and support those who want to submit to them. Below are a list of thse opportunities.
2025 Through Their Eyes
A Holocaust Art and Writing Contest
Are you an educator who is looking for creative ways to teach your students about the Holocaust? Are you a student in grades 5-12th who would like to showcase your art, writing, or film? You are invited to participate in our 2025 Through Their Eyes: A Holocaust Art and Writing Contest. The CUJF Holocaust Education Center’s contest focuses on honoring Holocaust victims (Jewish and non-Jewish and who died or survived), resisters, rescuers, and liberators.
The contest is open to public, private, and homeschool students in grades 5-12 in Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Macon, Moultrie, Montgomery, Piatt, Shelby, and Vermilion counties.
Winners of Best in Show will receive a $50 prize and a matching $50 award to the winners supporting teacher, parent, or guardian.
Contest submissions are due by Friday, January 17th, 2025. Entries can be submitted electronically via Google Forms using the button below. If your entry cannot be submitted digitally, or for further questions, please contact hec@cujf.org.
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Chapman Holocaust Art & Writing Contest
Holocaust Education Center Scholarships
Chapman University's Holocaust Art and Writing Contest is an annual competition for high school students to use art, film, poetry, and prose to reflect on a survivor testimony. Winners win a cash prize and attend a study trip in Los Angeles.
The Holocaust Education Center of Champaign Urbana Jewish Federation proudly sponsors educators to attend professional development sessions in an effort to inform their current practice teaching the Holocaust and contemporary genocide.
Elie Wiesel Writing and Visual Arts Competition
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators
Elie Wiesel Writing and Visual Arts Competition is an annual competition for high school students to reflect on the importance and true nature of moral courage, as the dangers of all types of prejudice, peer pressure, unthinking obedience to authority, and indifference to the suffering of others are still widespread in our world. Winners win a cash prize.
The Kappy Family Art & Writing Competition
The Museum of Jewish Heritage Online Education Program
The Kappy Family Art & Writing Competition seeks to educate students in 7th-12th grade about the Holocaust, engage them through Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's profound stories, and empower them to move from thought to action using creative expression. Winners win a cash prize.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is providing online education programs for educators and students during this time of remote learning. Online professional development for educators is offered each Monday from 3:00-4:00 pm CST. Corresponding lesson for students are offered on Tuesdays from 10:00-11:00 am CST.
Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Art & Writing Contest
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
In remembrance of the many artworks lost or destroyed during the Holocaust, the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center hosts an art and writing competition.
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie offers a wide array of resources for educators and students.
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum Art & Writing Contest
Anti-Defamation League: Teaching the Holocaust
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum Student & Art Writing Contest asks middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspirint lessons of the Holocaust. Winners will receive a cash prize.
Echoes & Reflections website offers free online webinars and courses for educators.
“Our webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.”
Virginia Holocaust Museum Student Visual Art Contest and White Rose Research Contest
The Virginia Holocaust Museum hosts two Holocaust contests, a visual art contest and the White Rose research contest which accepts submissions in the form of either an essay or a documentary.