Holocaust artwork honored

Monday, June 14, 2004 | 9:17 a.m.

A Henderson high school student won a national award from the U.S. Holocaust Museum for her artwork.

Coronado High School senior Sheila Brown, 18, won third place in the museum's annual art contest for high school students. Students were asked to portray the challenges of children and parents who were forced to hide out during the Holocaust.

Brown's piece, titled "For Her Sake," depicted a Jewish woman giving up her baby daughter to a friend of the family, so that she may be hidden from the Nazis.

"It must have been difficult to give away your child," Brown said. "I wanted to show how it actually did happen." Brown received a gift certificate to the museum's shop in Washington, D.C., and $125, which she said will go toward her college tuition at Southern Virginia University.

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