2012 Winners

 
 

Jack and Ina Jack Polak met Ina Soep in June 1943, in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. They both ended up in Westerbork transit camp, from which prisoners were sent to camps across Europe. Against all odds, Jack and Ina continued on to the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp…. Stanley Stewart Stanley Stewart is a teen leader in VOX’s JUST Georgia Initiative, a program that brings young people’s voices to the legislative agenda of rewriting Georgia’s juvenile code. He became involved with the Initiative, knowing how too quickly children can find themselves in juvenile systems.
Matthew Ferguson In August of 2008 Matt Ferguson returned home from football practice to find his mother in tears and his family gathered in the living room. His father announced that his mother had been diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. It was life changing moment… Rachel Marichal Rachel Mirachal was profoundly affected by Anne’s diary, and while volunteering at the local food pantry saw the growing need for family food assistance 67 years after Anne’s family suffered similar food deprivations. Inspired to act,Rachel became a driving force in behind the Paramus Helping Paramus Food Drive…
Sudip Bhandari In response to the growing culture of youth violence and limited knowledge of the Holocaust, in the summer of 2011, Sudip Bhandari founded The Anne Frank Project. Funded by a St. Olaf College Entrepreneurial Grant, he traveled to Nepal committed to teaching students about the atrocities of the Holocaust… Steven Howell, Ph.D A longtime classroom educator at James A. Garfield High, Garrettsville, Ohio, Dr. Steven Howell has worked tirelessly for many years to confront discrimination and to bring the importance of the history of the Holocaust and other genocides into his teaching curriculum…