Auschwitz Foundation - Rules for the Essay Competition
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Art. 1 – Remembrance of Auschwitz ASBL, Study and Education Center, has established an annual competition in homage to all the victims of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

Art. 2 – The competition takes the form of an essay on a subject which is chosen each year.  It lasts for two hours. No information or explanations may be provided while the competition is taking place.

Art. 3 – The prizes for the best essays are awarded every June, so as to coincide with the end-of-year results and with other educational awards.

Art. 4 – Six prizes with a total value of over €750.00, consisting of a diploma, a check for €125.00 and an invitation to take part free of charge in the next study visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, will be offered jointly according to financial circumstances by the Auschwitz and the country’s French-speaking provinces.  The Auschwitz Foundation reserves the right to publish the prize-winning essays.

Art. 5 – Essays must be sent to the ASBL Remembrance of Auschwitz, rue des Tanneurs 65, 1000 Brussels, on the date fixed according to the terms of these rules.

Art. 6 – The essays will be reviewed by a jury formed for that purpose, composed by members of our Board of Administration, teachers and anyone else the jury considers may be useful.  Each member of the jury will present a report on the essays he is asked to review.  After examining all these reports, the jury will decide how to award the prizes.  Its decision is final.

Art. 7 – The Board of Administration will decide on all matters not foreseen by these rules.

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  • Auschwitz Foundation – Remembrance of Auschwitz

    Bureau de la Fondation AuschwitzThe Auschwitz Foundation was founded in 1980 by Paul Halter, an Auschwitz survivor. Replacing the Amicale Belge des Ex-Prisonniers politiques d’Auschwitz-Birkenau Camps et Prisons de Silésie, the primary objective of the Auschwitz Foundation is to study the history and memory of the victims of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror in a sustainable and systematic way. The transmission of memory and the preservation of archives concerning these events complete this goal.

    On the other hand, the Auschwitz Foundation does not want to limit itself to Auschwitz or the Holocaust, and this is expressed in the interest the Foundation has in all mass crimes committed by authoritarian regimes. The work and projects it carries out are resolutely multidisciplinary and extend to all mass crimes and crimes committed in the long historic term or in contemporary history.

    To carry out this considerable task, the Auschwitz Foundation set up a Study and Documentation Centre in 2004: Remembrance of Auschwitz. Thanks to this new institution, which has a permanent staff of ten specialists, the promotion of scientific research and multidisciplinary publications has increased significantly.

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Auschwitz Foundation – Remembrance of Auschwitz
Rue aux Laines 17 box 50 – B-1000 Brussels
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To become a member of Remembrance of Auschwitz ASBL, take part in its activities and support its actions, please contact us.
Membership costs €40.00, payable to account n° 310-0780517-44 (IBAN : BE55 3100 7805 1744 – BIC : BBRUBEBB)
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