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Holocaust Essay
Winners Announced

Children of Holocaust-
survivors Association in
Michigan has announced the
winners of its fifth annual
Holocaust writing competi-
tion.
One-hundred six essays
were submitted on the topic:
"Why study the Holocaust?
How can this learning ex-
perience be applied to life to-
day?"
This year's winners are:
first place, Evana Rogers,
Groves High School; second
place, Jennifer Mirich, West
Bloomfield High School; third
place, Marla Hersh, Ferndale
High School.
Honorable mentions were

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awarded to Amy Stockmann
and Ellen Kogan from Groves
and Marzena M. Jurek from
Southfield-Lathrup High
School.
This year's judges were:
Charles Silow, president of _
C.H.A.I.M.; Barbara Gray,
race relations director,
Greater Detroit Interfaith
Round Table of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews; Sidney Bolkosky, pro-
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Ms. Roger's winning entry
follows:

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was thoroughly unaware.
I consciously made the
fateful decision to witness
Auschwitz, yet I had no clue
that I had made the decision
to walk into the rest of my
life, right then and there, at
age 16. My life up until
March 17, 1990, has now
become not only a part of my
past, but an entirely separate
lifetime. Until I was given a
purpose in life, a mission to
fulfill, I was merely existing.
I awoke from my childhood
slumber as I touched the gray
stones of Treblinka. I rubbed
and opened my eyes as I pick-
ed up the sandal of a young
child lying in a pile of pir-
. soners' shoes. I approached
the threshold of what I was to
become as I felt the crunch of
ashes below my feet in a Ma-
jdanek crematoria run up my
spine. The moment at which
I became a part of the soil of
Auschwitz, I had been born.
With each passing moment
in Poland, a 16-year-old girl
was forced to let go of comfort.
I could no longer play the role
of an innocent child in this
world. Living my life would
now require steadfast faith
and undying purpose in order
to make sense of the hell I
saw unfold before me.
To make sense of the
Holocaust is undeniably in-
conceivable. However, to
make the conscious decision
to attempt to see is the first
step to becoming not only
educated, but understanding
and mature. 'Ib open your eyes
but close your heart at
photographs of Auschwitz is
understandable. To listen to
the stories of survivors yet

never make the attempt to
hear is understandable. To
memorize facts about logistics
of the Nazi war machine yet
block out description is accep-
table. lb avoid answering
those questions in the first
place, however, is not
acceptable.
To lead a responsible life
you have an obligation to
learn. To call yourself
educated means you've made
the attempt to see with your
eyes and understand with
your mind. Emotion entails
the feelings which come
about as a result of education.

I awoke from my
childhood slumber
as I touched the
gray stones of
Ilreblinka.

Education is the easy part,
the foundation of everything
you do with your abilities.
Lack of education and emo-
tion equals ignorance, leading
to prejudice. Education alone
equals intelligence. Educa-
tion paired with the will to
feel is maturity.
What you believe in your
faith and feel in your heart is
your purpose, what you stand
for.
I crossed the Polish border
with the illusions one has
before they've been presented
with the material for educa-
tion. I was naive, I was ig-
norant, I was a child; but
more importantly, I was
curious. It 'was a slap in the
face to be confronted with the
concept that it would be up to
me to decide if and how God
exists, and if so, how could the