DAPHNE, Ala. — Rebecca Pober Citrin won The Holocaust Essay/Poetry Contest’s first-place award for her essay, “The Holocaust.” She read the piece at The Holocaust Memorial Service for Remembrance Day at the Springhill Avenue Temple in Mobile.

The program was led by Rabbi Donald Kunstadt, Rabbi Steve Silberman and the former archbishop, Oscar Lipscomb. “Now, as Then …  Denial is the Enemy” was the theme of this year’s Day of Remembrance, prepared annually by Mary and Paul Filben.

Citrin, a Daphne resident, received a $50 check in the contest, which was sponsored by the Gulf Coast Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education. Emily Morrow, of UMS-Wright, last year’s essay winner, gave the Call to Remembrance.

Agnes Tannenbaum, survivor of Auschwitz, read her poem, “For the Six Million Jews and Others.” Silberman led the Kaddish; Lipscomb gave the Benediction.