Holocaust observance 2020 art and writing contests, middle school division

The Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust has announced the top three placers in the middle school division of the 14th annual Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest and top three entries in the art contest. Garrett Johnson of Salk Middle School won the art contest. Natalie Williams of Bryant/TEC won the essay contest.

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Wed., April 22, 2020

Natalie Williams, a seventh-grade student of Vicki Singleton and Rick Havermann at TEC at Bryant, has won the middle school division of the 2020 Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest with her essay, “Hold On to the Light.”
Garrett Johnson, an eighth-grade student of Debra Trujillo at Salk Middle School, has won the middle school division of the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust Art Contest for 2020. The title of his metal sculpture is “The Jewish Savior.”
“Soul’s Concerto,” by Jasmin Rose-Perkins, eighth-grader at Salk Middle School, took second place in the middle school division of the 2020 Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust Art Contest. Jasmin writes: “My requiem was inspired by Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish violinist who saved nearly 1,000 Jewish people during the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933. Huberman had created the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, only accepting Jewish orchestral members from Europe. I created a violin, accompanied with a bow and different colored strings. The string’s colors (black, silver, green & orange) each represent something different. Black represents the orchestral members’ prospective death that was anticipated. Silver represents the hope everyone had for a better life. Green represents the Jewish lives that were spared because of the opportunity of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and orange represents the passion Huberman had for saving and helping the Jewish community. Huberman’s acts were selfless and courageous, making him a true hero, saving many Jewish people in need.”

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Jasmin Rose-Perkins, an eighth-grade student of Debra Trujillo at Salk Middle School in Spokane, has made the top three in the middle school division of the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust Art Contest for 2020. She earned second place for her artwork, “Soul’s Concerto.”

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“The Face of Hope,” by Lilly Carroll, eighth-grader, at Salk Middle School in Spokane, is the third place entry in the middle school division of the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust 2020 Art Contest. Lilly writes: “Betsie ten Boom was Corrie ten Boom’s Sister. While Betsie was sickly all of her life, her spirit was not. She had hope. Hope is a beautiful thing and such a hard thing to show in such a time of hardship and torture. Though Betsie did not live to see the liberation of the Jews, she had hope, and she knew that soon the Ravensbruck concentration camp where she and her sister were, would be liberated. And she spread her hope abroad to all around her, even uplifting her own sister. I believe that a great superpower is the power of hope – hope to keep pressing on, hope to see good in bad, and joy in the mist of persecution. My picture represents how beautiful hope can make your soul. It shines through amidst suffering.”
Lilly Carroll, an eighth-grade student of Leslie Martin at Salk Middle School in Spokane, made the top three in the middle school division of the Spokane Community Holocaust Observance 2020 Art Contest. She earned third place for her entry, “The Face of Hope.”
Katie Confer, eighth-grade student of Andrew Olmsted at Odyssey Libby Center, has taken second place in the middle school division of the 2020 Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest with her essay, “Irena Sendler.”
Sofia Hessler, a seventh-grade student of Vicki Singleton and Rick Havermann at TEC at Bryant in Spokane, has earned third place in the middle school division of the 2020 Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest with her essay, “Stand Through the Storm.”