2025 Holocaust Art and Essay Contest

All 5^th-12^th grade students in Tennessee and the Mid-South are invited to participate in Memphis Jewish Federation’s 16^th Annual Holocaust Art & Essay Competition. 

Students in grades 5-8 are invited to submit artwork and students in grades 9-12 are invited to submit essays, on this year’s theme of The 80th  Anniversary of Liberation, Echoes of Liberation: Remembering, Reflecting, Rebuilding.

Cash prizes for top winners in each category are provided by the Kaethe Mela Family Memorial Fund of the Jewish Foundation of Memphis. Kaethe, her husband Paul, and their 17-year-old daughter Doris were murdered in Auschwitz.

All entries are due by the close of business,Friday, March 28, 2025.

Click here for complete guidelines for art contest.

Click here to complete guidelines for essay contest.

For more information, please contact Carrie Richardson: crichardson@jcpmemphis.org