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Yad Vashem Education
Awards – 2004
by Yona Gal
On 20 May, Yad Vashem awarded its
annual prizes for educational achievement. The ceremony was
attended by award donors, recipients, Holocaust survivors,
students and educators.
Avraham Oded Cohen, former Deputy
Director-General and Head of the Youth and Society Administration
in the Ministry of Education, was awarded the Chuno and Blima
Najmann Foundation Educator’s Prize for his vision, years of
activity and unique contribution towards Holocaust education in
Israel. Other prizes awarded by the Foundation included the
Curriculum Prize, received by Jerusalem’s Habad Beit Hannah
School for its program, “The Final Solution in the Soviet Union –
Communities in Ruin.”
Five students received prizes funded
by the Mark and Luba Uveeler Memorial Foundation, and Manya and
Gershon Bergson, for outstanding projects in a variety of areas:
Music in Westerbork; the Silence of Pope Pius XII; Wagner’s
Antisemitism in Nazi Ideology; Illusion and Reality in the
Theresienstadt Ghetto; and Patterns of Resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
For the first time, the Foundation
pour la Mémoire de la Shoah awarded a prize for an educational
program on French Jewry during the Holocaust. Dora Weinberger,
member of the Alumim Association, gave the prize to teacher
Tali Spiegler, for her study of French Righteous Among the
Nations. Student Dan Chaim Ross was also awarded a prize for his
paper on Jewish resistance in France.
Israel Education Television won the
Esteem Award for its Arabic-language film, “We Were There,”
depicting last year’s journey to Auschwitz-Birkenau by an
Arab-Jewish delegation.
The author is the Yad Vashem Awards
Coordinator, the International School for Holocaust Studies
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