WESTCHESTER – The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) says the 20th Century is often referred to as the “Century of Genocide.” The point out that this trend has continued into the 21st Century. Many of these genocides either began in April or include significant events that occurred in April.
The HHREC is encouraging students to raise awareness about these genocides and remember those who were lost as a result of “man’s inhumanity to man.” To this end, the HHREC is sponsoring a special student contest.
The contest requires that students create an original project in visual arts, poetry, music, or other media of artistic expression that commemorates some aspect of a genocide that has occurred in the 20th or 21st centuries. Examples include the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, the Bosnian Genocide, the Rwandan Genocide, the Genocide in Darfur, and many others. Please see World Without Genocide for a complete list.
The deadline for submission of projects is April 30, 2020. Projects, with the simple information sheet, need to be submitted by email to jscallero@hhrecny.org.
All projects will be evaluated by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center’s Co-Directors of Education, Steve Goldberg, and Julie Scallero.
The center will select 3 winners, one for grades 7 and 8, one for grades 9 and 10, and one for grades 11 and 12 who will receive a certificate and will have their projects announced on the center’s Facebook and Instagram pages. Additionally, the HHREC will make a donation, on the winners’ behalf, to the AFYA Foundation whose mission is to improve global health by rescuing surplus medical supplies and delivering them to underserved health systems around the world. This organization is working to provide medical supplies during the COVID-19 crisis.
