2010 Leo & Antonia Gershanov Memorial Holocaust Essay Contest
"One Person Can Make a Difference: Eliminating Genocide in My Lifetime"

The biennial Gershanov Family Student Essay Contest offers Illinois high school students (grades 9 through 12) an opportunity to respond to a theme that links historical and current events to their contemporary experience.

The deadline for all entries was midnight, March 1, 2010. 

• NO FURTHER ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. 
• Finalists will be notified after April 16.  
• Awards will be presented in a ceremony at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Sunday, May 16, 2010.

We thank all the students for their efforts.

For more information, email contest@ilhmec.org.

Read More about the Previous Contests

• 2009 Leo & Antonia Gershanov Memorial Holocaust Arts and Writing Contest:
  Memory Keepers: Transform the Future
  
  

• 2008 Leo & Antonia Gershanov Memorial Holocaust Essay Contest:
  History's Dark Echo: The Challenge of 'Never Again' in the 21st Century
  
  

• 2007 Leo & Antonia Gershanov Memorial Holocaust Arts and Writing:
  Less than Perfect: The Many Victims of Nazi Persecution