An Episcopal School of Dallas student was named the first-place winner in the sixth to eighth grade bracket of the Dallas Holocaust Museum's Remembrance Day art competition.

Meredith Hessel, an eighth grader at ESD, received $100 in prize money because her work of art, which featured a quote by the last surviving commander of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, was selected as the winner of her bracket.

The quote, which was included on Hessel's submission, was by Marek Edelman and said, "When you were responsible for the life of some 60,000 people, you don't leave and abandon the memory of them." Beneath the quote on the piece of art are barbed wire and a flower.

Edelman was one of the leaders of 220 Jews who fought against the Germans in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and he managed to escape through the sewers on May 10, 1943. He passed away at the age of 90 in 2009 in Warsaw, Poland.

The theme of the Museum's art contest was "April 19, 1943: Choosing to Act," and sixth through twelfth grade students had the chance to submit any piece of art that they created on a two-dimensional medium, which related to the theme. Winners were selected from two categories — sixth to eighth grade and ninth to twelfth grade. A total of $450 in prize money was distributed to the winners.