Paul Seideman Scholarship: Past Winners
2024 Winners
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[L to R] MC Deb Hart, HCNZ Chair, Raphe Dacre, Esther Hoyt, Mason Drylie, and The Honourable Nicola Willis, Deputy Leader National Party. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2025. Photography by Woolf.
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Don't Forget the Heroes, by Esther Hoyt
Honourable Mentions
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Eva Gluckman
Year 7, Kadimah School Irene Arora
Year 10, Botany Downs Secondary College |
Victoria Lettink Year 8, Selwyn House Annabelle Lee
Year 13, Macleans College |
Daisy Coop
Year 8, Selwyn House Sarah Waddington
Year 12, St Andrew’s College |
Neha Babu,
Year 10, Botany Downs Secondary College Violetta Dacre, Year 11, Rangi Ruru Girls’ School
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2023 Winners
Remembering by Olivia Cammell.
This image and all above: Photography by Woolf
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L to R: The Honourable Nicola Willis, Deputy Leader National Party, Naomi Roberts, Victoria Lettink, Olivia Cammell, Zlata Shapran and Assoc. Prof. Giacomo Lichtner, Deputy Chair, Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration and prize giving, 28 January 2024. Photography by Woolf
Year 7 - 8: Victoria Lettink, Year 7, Selwyn House School, Christchurch
Year 9 - 10: Naomi Roberts, Year 9, Hillview Christian School, Christchurch
Year 11 - 13: Olivia Cammell, Year 11, Hauraki Plains College, Ngatea
Year 11 - 13: Zlata Shaparan, Year 12, Nga Tawa Diocesan School, Marton
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The topic for 2023 was :
“Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness." - Elie Wiesel
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, we are quickly reaching a point where first-person accounts of the events surrounding this horrific time in history will be gone. With ever-increasing reports of rising antisemitism worldwide and in Aotearoa New Zealand, many question how Holocaust education will change when the last survivors pass.
Examine the way in which the loss of the first-generation survivors will impact Holocaust education.
Your entry should show how you view the need for continued Holocaust and antisemitism education as well as the importance of such education in creating a more just society.
“Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness." - Elie Wiesel
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, we are quickly reaching a point where first-person accounts of the events surrounding this horrific time in history will be gone. With ever-increasing reports of rising antisemitism worldwide and in Aotearoa New Zealand, many question how Holocaust education will change when the last survivors pass.
Examine the way in which the loss of the first-generation survivors will impact Holocaust education.
Your entry should show how you view the need for continued Holocaust and antisemitism education as well as the importance of such education in creating a more just society.
2022 Winners
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L to R: Miriam Bookman, Deputy Chair, Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, Jaymee Davies, Meredith Williams, Amelie Thorpe, and the Honourable Minister Grant Robertson. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2023. Photography by Woolf Year 11 - 13: Jaymee Davies, Yr 11, Hauraki Plains College, Ngatea
Year 9 - 10 : Amelie Thorpe, Yr 10, Hillview Christian School, Christchurch
Year 7 - 8 : Meredith Williams, Yr 8, Queen Margaret College, Wellington
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TOPIC: “Through if be to die, we will fight....We will fight, not for ourselves, but for future generations” - Yitzhak Katsenelson, dramatist and Warsaw Ghetto fighter
While the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ultimately failed to stop the Nazis and their collaborators from deporting the last remaining Jews, it has inspired generations since to honour the humanity of the victims. Examine the way in which the memory of the ghetto uprising can be shown through poetry, art, music, dramatisation, or personal memoirs. Your entry should show how you honour their humanity and their memories, and how it will continue to shape future generations.
While the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ultimately failed to stop the Nazis and their collaborators from deporting the last remaining Jews, it has inspired generations since to honour the humanity of the victims. Examine the way in which the memory of the ghetto uprising can be shown through poetry, art, music, dramatisation, or personal memoirs. Your entry should show how you honour their humanity and their memories, and how it will continue to shape future generations.
2021 Winners
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L to R: Jaymee Davies, Hon Grant Robertson Deputy Prime Minister, Eden Li and Sophie Ineson.
27 January 2022, prize-giving at Parliament, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Photography by Woolf Year 11 - 13: Eden Li, Yr 12, Westlake Boys High School, Auckland
Year 9 - 10: Jaymee Davies, Yr 10, from Hauraki Plains College, Ngatea
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Year 7 & 8: Sophie Ineson, Yr 8, from Southland Girls High School, Invercargill
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2021 TOPICS:
Years 9—13: “Brothers! It is better to fall as free fighters than to live by the grace of murderers. Resist! To the last breath!” -They Shall Not Take Us Like Sheep to the Slaughter! by Abba Kovner, Holocaust survivor. Resistance to the Nazis came in many forms, and from different avenues. Examine the different ways in which groups targeted by the Nazis were able to resist them and their collaborators.
Years 7—8: “Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone.” -Sophie Scholl, White Rose resistance member.
Power is often exercised by those who are behind closed doors, away from the eyes of the public. Student groups like the White Rose challenged the power of the Nazis, very publicly. Examine how student actions during the Holocaust have impacted students and their actions today.
Years 9—13: “Brothers! It is better to fall as free fighters than to live by the grace of murderers. Resist! To the last breath!” -They Shall Not Take Us Like Sheep to the Slaughter! by Abba Kovner, Holocaust survivor. Resistance to the Nazis came in many forms, and from different avenues. Examine the different ways in which groups targeted by the Nazis were able to resist them and their collaborators.
Years 7—8: “Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone.” -Sophie Scholl, White Rose resistance member.
Power is often exercised by those who are behind closed doors, away from the eyes of the public. Student groups like the White Rose challenged the power of the Nazis, very publicly. Examine how student actions during the Holocaust have impacted students and their actions today.
2020 Winners
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L to R: Maayan Bialik, Felix Steiner, Hon Grant Robertson, Deputy Prime Minister (host of the Parliamentary reception) Leah Burger, and Holocaust survivor and endower of the competition Paul Seideman z"l. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2021.
Photography by Woolf YEAR 11 - 13: Leah Burger Year 13, Rosehill College, Auckland
YEAR 9 - 10: Felix Steiner Year 10, Rongotai College, Wellington
YEAR 7 - 8: Maayan Bialik Year 7, Remuera Intermediate School, Auckland
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2019 Winners
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L to R: Rosetta Tanner, Hon Grant Robertson, Deputy Prime Minister (host of the Parliamentary reception), Miriam Bookman, Deputy Chair of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, Sophey Jenkins, Orlando Ye, and Holocaust survivor and endower of the competition Paul Seideman z"l.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2020. Photography by Woolf Year 11 - 13: Sophey Jenkins, Tararua College, Pahiatua
Year 9 - 10: Orlando Ye, Botany Downs Secondary College, Auckland
Year 7 - 8: Rosetta Tanner, Somerville Intermediate School, Auckland
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2018 Winners
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L to R: Mark Seddon, Ginny Andersen MP (host of the parliamentary reception), Holocaust survivor and endower of the competition Paul Seideman z"l, and Georgia Wong.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019. Photography by Woolf Year 10: Georgia Wong, Columba College, Dunedin
Year 13: Mark Seddon, Westlake Boys High School, Auckland
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2017 Winners
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Prizes were awarded by host MP Chris Bishop at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day event on 26 January 2018.
L to R: Senior winner -Anna Sue, Mt Roskill Grammar School, Auckland, MP Chris Bishop, Paul Seideman z"l, and Junior winner - Seb Bartley, Cambridge High School, Cambridge. Photography by Woolf |
2016 Winner
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L to R: Aisha Fariz, Macleans College, Auckland, with Paul Seideman z”l, and Minister Chris Bishop. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2017. Photography by Woolf
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2015 Winner
2014 Inaugural Winners
Awarded on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2015
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The prizes for the inaugural Paul Seideman Schools Essay Competition of 2014 were presented by the then Minister of Arts and Culture Hon Maggie Barry, Parliamentary reception host, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2015, marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
L to R: Winners Susannah Hansen, Year 10, of Woodford House, Havelock North, and Jessica Strick, Year 10 of St Peters College, Cambridge, with Hon Maggie Barry and Paul Seideman z”l.
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