Three Keene State College students, an eighth grader from Monadnock Regional High School, and a storyteller from Shelburne Falls, Mass., received awards at the 12th Annual Hildebrandt Holocaust Studies Awards Program on Monday, April 20.
Hannah Bush, eighth grader at Monadnock Regional Middle School, received the $300 Community School Award for her original song, “Be a Witness.”
David Arfa, from Shelburne Falls, Mass., received the $300 Community Member Award for his storytelling entry, “The Jar of Tears,” based on the life of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Meagan Blais, a KSC Junior enrolled in Keene State’s new Holocaust and Genocide Studies major, received a $500 award for her personal essay, “Inheriting the Holocaust.”
KSC students Jessica Howard and Becky Midler shared a $500 award for “Unearthed Sense,” an original dance that they choreographed and performed.