Art, Essay Contest For Cleveland-Area Students Now Open

BEACHWOOD, OH — Cleveland-area middle and high school writers and artists are invited to participate in the 2020 Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah (Cleveland’s commemoration of the Holocaust & Heroism) Contest. Cash prizes up to $2,500 may be awarded to winners.

The Yom Hashoah Creative Arts contest is an annual competition. The theme this year is "75 Years Since Liberation: What Have We Learned?" Student artists are asked to consider what liberation would have looked like, what liberators see, how liberation was documented and what the lessons of the Holocaust teach us today.

Essays and works of art submitted for the contest will be judged on their interpretation of the theme, originality and technique. Winners and their schools will be recognized at Yom Hashoah Commemoration on April 20, 2020 at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple.

Entries must be submitted by February 7, 2020. For more information, and to get entry forms, visit the Jewish Federation of Cleveland's website.

The Yom Hashoah Creative Arts Contest and the annual Yom Hashoah commemoration program are sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the Kol Israel Foundation.