Love empowered a boy named Leon Leyson to search for his mother in the Plaszow concentration camp, daring to venture into a part of the camp where males were prohibited. If Papa, Mama, and Arthur survive, they will wait for me, hoping and praying. On the death march, when it seemed she did not have the strength to take another step, she said to herself: “I had to hope. As he wrote in his memoir Man’s Search for Meaning, “nothing could touch the strength of my love, my thoughts, and the image of my beloved.”Īfter she was separated from her family, young Gerda Weissmann secretly carried in her boots photographs of her beloved parents and brother, Arthur. Those conversations and the memory of her love enabled his mind to escape to another place and time. Viktor Frankl endured the camps by thinking constantly of his wife and even conversing with her in his mind. Love nourished the soul and inspired hope. We meet them as people who gave and received love and for whom the memory of those they loved was a source of extraordinary strength. If our study of the Holocaust ends there, we see the Nazis’ victims the way they wanted us to see them, deprived of their identities and individuality.īut when we listen to a survivor testimony or read a survivor memoir, we come to see those targeted as individuals. We see people humiliated, starved, and beaten, dressed in rags or tawdry striped uniforms, robbed of their humanity. It was all in the world my mother had to give me, the best she could do.” LEON LEYSON The Boy on the Wooden BoxĪll too often the images of the Holocaust we carry in our minds are those created by the perpetrators. “At the very last moment my mother reached into the pile of rags on the shelf where she slept and pulled out a walnut-size piece of dry bread. Students awarded second prize in each category will receive $200 and their sponsoring educator and school will receive $100 each. Please note that the study trip is contingent on whether COVID-19 restrictions and protocols are being observed. In addition, first-place student entries will be posted on Chapman University’s contest website. winning participants will be joined by first-place students living outside of the United States. Educators and schools will also be eligible to win a first prize of $200 each.įirst-place student winners in the United States, their parents/ guardians, and teachers will be invited to participate in an expense-paid study trip June 19-23, 2023, to visit the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the Japanese American National Museum, and other sites in Los Angeles, as well as to meet with members of The 1939 Society, a community of Holocaust survivors, descendants, and friends.įunding permitting, this year’s U.S. Students will be eligible to win a first prize award of $400 in each category. Participating schools may submit a total of three entries (one entry per student) in any combination of the following categories: art, film, poetry, or prose. The Strength of Love and the Will to Survive California’s Gold Exhibit and Huell Howser Archives.Undergraduate Scholarly/Creative Grants.Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).Faculty Research and Creative Scholars Expo.291/491 Research/Creative Activity Course.Scholarly Opportunities Outside Chapman University.National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.Industry Alliances and Commercialization.
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