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US265 – “Breathe”

Colored Pencil

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US264 – “Trapped”

Pencil Sketch

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US263 – Warsaw Rembered

Pencil drawing of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Third Place Winner – Where is God – US262

The painting is a powerful display of what was staring directly into one’s eyes who were assigned labor in an extermination camp. The painting itself asks, “What God would allow this?”

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US261 – Survivor Guilt

Liam’s project visually shows survival guilt by the numerous quotes placed on the crematorium, the quotes are found throughout the diorama.

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US260 – Six Million Not Forgotten

Elle used her great grandfathers “captured” Nazi flag from World War II as a background to represent that although the Nazis tried they were not able to extinguish the memory of the six million Jews that perished in the Holocaust.

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US259 – Ordinary People

Leah’s project is complex with many possible interpretations, yet it shows how numerous Ordinary People endured the Holocaust, and any many ways these days will be a mirror image throughout life.

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US258 – One Can Not Flourish Out of Their Native Soil

Allie using a paraphrased quote from Auschwitz True Tales from a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg Przytyk. wanted to show that humans as well as plants have a very difficult time flourishing when they are ripped from their native soil. The native soil is a symbol for life itself.

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US257 – Mussulman

Kiaron wanted to display the survival, yet living death of those who were known as Mussulman.

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US253 – Daily Poison

Garrett did an incredible project on the chemistry and medications that many victims of the Holocaust endured.

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