The Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies is an annual student competition with an award of up to $500. Submissions may include essays, research papers, poetry, drama, film, artwork, musical composition, or other creative expression.

Follow

Submissions from 2023

PDF

Where Words Cannot Express, Abigale E. Ernst

PDF

My Butterfly, Alice G. Pellemoine

Submissions from 2022

PDF

From the Eyes of Art, Lauren E. Anderson

Submissions from 2021

PDF

Starting Anew: Jewish Immigrants and Refugees sent to America’s Midwest from Nazi and Post WWII Germany, Quinn Fabish

PDF

Family Hope and Support Through The Holocaust, Gwendolyn Flannery

PDF

Teaching Our Past to Preserve Our Future: Ignorance and the Insurrection, Haleigh Jacocks

PDF

The Last Prisoners of War: How Nazi-Looted Art is Displayed in U.S. Museums, Monica May Thompson

Submissions from 2020

PDF

From Leaflets to Tweets: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Propaganda Tools Used by the Nazi Party and Donald Trump, TJ Coleman

PDF

The Problem of Jewish Agency in The Holocaust: 1939-1945, Joseph Knapik

PDF

The National Socialists and How They Ostracized an Entire Population, Kathryn Weber

Submissions from 2019

Consolations, Joshua Iyer

File

Children That Never Grew Wrinkles, Mia Polinski

Submissions from 2018

PDF

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Anti-Semitism, Hopelessness, and the Rise of the Nazi Party, Benjamin E. Bruster

PDF

“The Shawl”: Of Which Bears the Facade, Giselle Carter

Submissions from 2017

PDF

S.S. Schatten Schmidt, Emma Albers-Lopez

PDF

Belsen Silence, Monica Gil

PDF

To See in Color, Sarah Rebban

Submissions from 2016

PDF

The Scapegoat, Katherine Ludwig

Submissions from 2015

PDF

Surviving the Holocaust: Catharsis Through Music, Amanda Hassler

PDF

A Flight for Hope, Emma Levich

PDF

Continued Remembrance, Abbigail Mehnert

PDF

The Art of Censorship, Mark Sieber

PDF

Wagner Contra Mundum: Wagner versus the World, Caitlin A. Thom