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Holocaust-survivors Association In
Honorable mention went to Amanda
• Michigan, has named its winners of the
Robitaille of Williamston High School.
20th annual Holocaust essay competi-
All other participants were awarded
tion.
engraved certificates.
CHAIM and the Holocaust
The judges for the contest were
Education Coalition donated 500 sets of CHAIM members Barbara Cohen,
the Holocaust curriculum to high
Debra Feldman, Allene Koby and Sandy
schools and parochial schools through-
Silver.
out Michigan. The participat-
ing students were asked to
address the topic, "What
made it possible for the
Another day has ended and the night is
Holocaust to occur and why is
settling down on the camp. A shroud of
the study of the Holocaust rel-
deep black has stretched itself across the sky.
evant to students today?"
Stars, like shards of fragmented glass, lie
First place and $100 was
sprinkled and embedded within the shroud.
awarded to Ashley Thomas of
Their dim light casts an eerie glow across
Ferndale High School. Second
the sky. How many times have I made
place and $50 was awarded to
wishes upon these sparkling fragments, hop-
Elissa Kaner of Detroit
ing with a child-like faith that they would
Country Day School in
come true?
Beverly Hills. Third place and
But those days are far away, just as the
$25 was awarded to Liah
pieces of glass that hang suspended over the
earth. What is the use of hope? Hunger
stabs me every waking moment of every day.
Time ... here is frozen, the fragile pendu-
lum that hangs suspended between life and
death. A fetid smell overpowers this place,
wrapping itself like heavy, damp velvet
around me, engulfing me. Flakes of matter
float carelessly from the sky, dirty snow
blanketing the hard ground
The chimneys methodically
spill forth their dead, bear-
ing witness to a greater evil.
One day, I, too, like the
countless
before
me,
will be floating silently
ASHLEY THOMAS
to
the
unmarked
grave
of an indifferent
Special to the Jewish News
blue sky.
—Ashley Thomas
welve years. On a
timeline, 12 years
seems incredibly
desperation, people will look for scape-
short, but in the years that
goats — something or someone to pin
Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in
the cause of their problems on. The Jews
power, the hell that was created is
were easy targets because they had a
unmatched by anything the world has
ever known. During those years, six mil- long history of rejection and persecu-
tion. It is easier for people to find blame
lion Jews perished at the cold, callous
in others rather than in themselves.
hands of the Nazis simply because of
The Holocaust was allowed to happen
who they were. Concentration camps
because
of indifference. Most of the
and gas chambers became a grave reality.
German population was not part of the
There were many factors that allowed
Nazi party, but those who stood by are
these atrocities against humanity to
occur and there are far too many reasons as guilty of killing innocent men,
women and children as those who actu-
why we, the living, must remember.
ally fired the bullets or poured the
The Holocaust, the slaughter of six
cyanide pellets into the gas-chambers.
million innocent Jews as well as count-
Millions died because people listened
less others, was permitted to occur due
and
accepted the propaganda that was
to a variety of factors. At the end of
fed to them. Millions of people died
World War I, Germany was devastated
because the rest of the population
and humiliated by defeat. Hitler came
stopped
thinking for themselves. Once
to power at a time when people were
Hitler
had
control over the minds of the
desperate for answers. As in any time of
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