Congratulations to our 2025 contest prize winners! This year's contest received more than seventy submissions. Our judges acknowledged nearly a third of them with the recognitions below.
Gabi Braden, Grade 12, Saint Joseph High School
Title: Weaponized Youth
Emiliano Alvarez-Garcia, Grade 12, Saint Joseph High School
Title: Untitled
Pelayo Muñiz, Grade 12, Saint Joseph High School
Title: Lest We Forget
Rhianna Whitaker, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: David
Iris Walton, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: The People Next Door
Lucy Mulvehill, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: Importance of survivor stories
Nosipho Mgwaba, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: The Unwilling SS
Elizabeth Anderson, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: The Significance of Silence
Beau Desloover, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: Importance of First Hand Holocaust Accounts and Holocaust Education
Claire McNally, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: The Importance of Survivors' Point of Views
Trinity Malott, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Keep Their Memories Alive
Belen Lopez, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Days of Yore
Seleni Hernandez, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Listen to Remember
Samara Hubbard, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: The People From Next Door and The People Lost to Time
Mercedes Walubita, Grade 9, John Adams High School
Title: ”The Emerging Light of Virtues in Eclipsed Times”
Lily Francis Lemrow-Collazo-Rosario, Grade 12, John Adams High School
Title: Understanding
Erick Pernalete , Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: The wrong people
Amara Ternet, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Ash and Blood
Emilie Arias, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Daisies
Rachel Delafuente, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Caged Rats
Rebekah McCray, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Never forget the shoes who tell stories
Cruz Zuber, Grade 9, Marian High School
Title: Burned Bridges