Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Winning essays in the Eva Lassman memorial writing contest

  April 19, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V7 Students throughout the Inland Northwest were issued this challenge: “Write a letter to your principal explaining why Holocaust education should be an important part of your school’s curriculum.” Dozens of … 3

• Holocaust studies remind us to care for each other

  April 19, 2012 in Features, Voices Molly Carpenter, an eighth-grader at Northwood Middle School, was the third-place winner, middle school division, in the Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest. 1

• Holocaust teaches timeless tolerance lessons

  April 19, 2012 in Features, Voices Sydney Hellman, an eighth-grader at Northwood Middle School, won second place, in the middle-school division, in the Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest 1

• Genocide: Not a thing of the past

  April 19, 2012 in Features, Voices Rachel Wright, a sophomore at Gonzaga Prep, was the second place winner in the high-school division of the Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest 2

• Fabrications allow history to repeat itself

  April 19, 2012 in Features, Voices Ashley Griechen, a sophomore at Gonzaga Prep, won third place in the Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest 3

• Difficult lessons

  April 14, 2012 in Features on Page E1 When former East Valley Middle School students run into teacher Julie Scott, they always ask: “Are you still teaching the Holocaust?” When Brad Veile teaches his Lakeside High School students … 33

• Holocaust: To my children I will tell

  April 23, 2011 in Features, News Randy Sylvester, a student at University High School, was the winner in the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust essay contest, April 2011. 3

• Telling children the stories of the Holocaust

  April 23, 2011 in Features on Page E1 The rules for this year’s Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust essay contest were demanding. Read three articles on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website.

• Holocaust: Hate is form of fear

  April 23, 2011 in Features, News Lee Organick, a senior at Ferris High School, was the third place winner in the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust essay contest, April 2011. 4

• Holocaust: Listen my children

  April 23, 2011 in Features, News Paul Epsora, a senior at East Valley High School, was the second place winner in the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust essay contest, April 2011.

• Reality of hate

  April 10, 2010 in Features on Page E1 Alexander Quine, a Ferris High School sophomore, recently interviewed Holocaust survivor Carla Peperzak of Spokane. Quine put together a four-minute film of the interview experience and showed it to fellow … 6

• Contest winner makes plea to end continued denials

  April 10, 2010 in Features on Page E1 President Ahmadinejad: I write this letter not as a suggestion, not as a recommendation, but as a plea. A plea for justice, for recognition of the millions of Jews, homosexuals, …