CHS Sophomore Boy Writes Best Essay on Americanism
Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit
In 1942, sophomore Bernard Sigoloff entered an essay contest on what makes him proud to be an American. His winning essay spoke to the different realities of Jewish civil rights at home and in Europe. In the following years, he would serve in WWII on the US Carpelotti as a part of the Navy. ;“CHS Sophomore Boy Writes Best Essay on Americanism,” The Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO), February 21, 1942, page 4, column 2, digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/935377929/: accessed {Feb 4, 2026}. Originals at the State Historical Society of Missouri)
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February 21 1942, Date createdFormat
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CC BY-NC-ND;“CHS Sophomore Boy Writes Best Essay on Americanism,” The Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO), February 21, 1942, page 4, column 2, digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/935377929/: accessed {Feb 4, 2026}. Originals at the State Historical Society of Missouri)Media Type
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CHS Sophomore Boy Writes Best Essay on Americanism: AATH04. Archives of the Daniel Boone Regional Library. 15 Sep 2026.
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