San Benito High School teacher and BenitoLink reporter, Frank Perez, was recently named a recipient of the 2017 Morris Weiss Award for Outstanding Holocaust Education.
On Sunday, April 23, he was presented with the honor at the Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) commemoration at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
Perez was one of three educators from the Greater Bay Area who received the award, a distinction that includes, ”$1,000 for professional development and an additional grant of $1,500 to the recipients’ schools to be spent on resources, events, or other programs related to Holocaust education,” according to the Jewish Families and Children’s Services (JFCS) of San Francisco website.
Prospective candidates applied for the award through JFCS, a process that involved, providing a current résumé, writing two 500-word essays, and submitting two letters of recommendation, including one written by a current student.
In his acceptance speech on Sunday, Perez stated that he planned to use funds to help his students “develop a deeper understanding between the relationship of historic anti-Semitism and the Holocaust” in an effort to “better educate” his students “on anti-Semitism, hatred, and intolerance in the world today.”
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