The Auschwitz Foundation Prizes are awarded annually to two high-level academic works in honour of all victims of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centres. We also offer two annual research grants.

In order to promote multidisciplinary scientific work, the Auschwitz Foundation has awarded an annual ‘Auschwitz Foundation Prize’ since 1986 and, since 2002, an ‘Auschwitz Foundation - Jacques Rozenberg Prize’ - in honour of all the victims of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centres - to reward original and unpublished research on the historical, social, political, economic, cultural and ideological processes that gave rise to mass crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Since 2012-2013, the Auschwitz Foundation has offered, in addition to the two prizes, an annual 'research grant', which was doubled in 2023 with a 'Research Grant of the Auschwitz Foundation - Jacques Rozenberg' offered by the Fondation Rozenberg-Caillet - Mains Ouvertes, Dignité de Vie. We warmly thank its Founder-President, Andrée Caillet, for this important initiative.

All four amount to €3,125.

Both prizes are primarily aimed at high-level academic work: doctorates, master theses and research works. The inter-university juries called upon to deliberate on these works consist of professors from Belgian and foreign universities, researchers specialised in the themes dealt with and members of the Auschwitz Foundation's Scientific Council.

In addition to awarding these prizes, the Auschwitz Foundation reserves the right to enter into a research agreement with one or more authors whose work has not been awarded a prize. To this end, it may allocate a small amount of financial aid to support the applicant in pursuing their research, depending on the comments made by the jury.

 

Jacques Rozenberg - 1998 - Auschwitz

 

 The Auschwitz Foundation Prizes have been granted for the academic year 2023-2024 to the following researchers:

• The ‘Auschwitz Foundation Prize’ (€3,125) to Mrs Lea MÜNCH for her work entitled Innenansichten der Psychiatrie im Elsass zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Lebensgeschichten zwischen Strasbourg und Hadamar, Doctoral thesis in History, École doctorale 519 Sciences humaines et sociales – Perspectives européennes.

• The ‘Auschwitz Foundation – Jacques Rozenberg Prize’ (€3,125) to Mrs Dominique FLORET for her work entitled Traces d’esclavage en héritage : blessures, trauma et désubjectivation. La plasticité psychique en question(s), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire: Récits, Cultures et Sociétés (LIRCES), Doctoral thesis in Psychology, Université Côte d’Azur, in co-direction with Université du Québec, 2023.

Article 4 of the Prize Regulations allows the Auschwitz Foundation executive board to award a small research grant (€300), as part of a research agreement, for writing an article to be published inin our Journal Testimony. Between History and Memory or on our website. It has been granted to:

• Ms Eva RAYNAL for her work entitled La fabrique du corps déporté. La représentation picturale du corps en milieu concentrationnaire (1933-1945), 2023.

 The Auschwitz Foundation Research Grants have been attributed for the academic year 2023-2024 to the following researchers:

•  The ‘Research grant of the Auschwitz Foundation’ (€3,125)  to Ms Cassandre LESNIK for her research project entitled De l’histoire à la mémoire : Étude de l’œuvre et de la postérité de Fritz Bauer (1903-1968), magistrat judéo-allemand de 1930 à 1968, Doctoral Student, Département EGNS (Études germaniques, néerlandaises et scandinaves), Université de Lille, under joint supervision with the University of Haifa.

• The ‘Research grant of the Auschwitz Foundation – Jacques Rozenberg’ (€3,125)  to Mrs Agathe DORRA for her research project entitled Esthétique et formes de résistance. Apport de dessins d’enfants réalisés en situations extrêmes, Doctoral Student, King’s College London.

The academic session for the presentation of the Auschwitz Foundation 2023-2024 Prizes, will take place on Friday 22 November 2023 at 6 PM sharp (guest welcome from 5:30 PM)  in the Gothic Room of Brussels City Hall.

To attend the academic session, prior registration is required (mentioning name, position and e-mail address), to be sent to Line Maes

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