Virginia Holocaust Museum: Visual Arts Contest & Upcoming Events

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VHM LogoFounded in 1997, the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia, strives to educate the public and promote tolerance towards all, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or creed.

Check out the Museum’s 2014 Visual Arts Contest for middle and high school students (entry deadline: March 14), and don’t miss out on these upcoming special events: Lecture on Righteous in Ukraine and Belarus on March 12, and the 2014 Yom Hashoah commemoration on April 27.

2014 Visual Arts Contest

The concept of resistance will be the focus of the Virginia Holocaust Museum’s 2014 Visual Arts Contest. Held in April in conjunction with Yom HaShoah, the competition is a yearly art contest and exhibit for middle and high school students to interpret a Holocaust related theme using 2D and 3D art. The contest is judged by members of the Richmond art community and displayed in the VHM’s galleries. The deadline for entries is March 14. Learn more >>>

Lecture on Righteous in Ukraine and Belarus – March 12, 2014

Dr. Katrin Reichelt is a specialist in the history of the Holocaust in eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the German occupation of Latvia between 1941 and 1944 and the city of Minsk in Belarus in 1942 and 1943. Based on her most recent research in archives in Minsk and Kiev, Dr. Reichelt will talk specifically about the Righteous Gentiles in Belarus and the Ukraine who risked their lives to shelter and to save the lives of Jews being hunted by the German SS and police. This event is free, but please RSVP. Learn more >>>

Wendy Lower to speak at Yom HaShoah – April 27, 2014

The featured speaker for the 2014 Yom Hashoah commemoration will be Professor Wendy Lower, currently John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont-McKenna College in Claremont, California. Professor Lower is the author of a number of books and articles about the history of the Holocaust. Her most recent work, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, is a finalist entry for the National Book Award in history. Learn more >>>