The Foundation Auschwitz 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 Foundation Auschwitz has awarded an annual ‘Foundation Auschwitz Prize’ since 1986 and, since 2002, an ‘Foundation Auschwitz – 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– in honour of all the victims of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centres – to reward original and unpublished research on the historical, social, political, economic, cultural and ideological processes that gave rise to mass crimes, crimes against humanity and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 Foundation Auschwitz has offered, in addition to the two prizes, an annual 'research grant', which was doubled in 2023 with a 'Foundation Auschwitz – Jacques Rozenberg Prize' 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 Foundation Auschwitz's Scientific Council.

In addition to awarding these prizes, the Foundation Auschwitz 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 Foundation Auschwitz Prizes have been granted for the academic year 2024-2025 to the following researchers:

• The ‘Foundation Auschwitz Prize’ (€3,125) to Timothée BRUNET-LEVÈVRE for his work La justice française à l’épreuve du génocide des Tutsi rwandais: Les procès d’Octavien Ngenzi et Tito Barahira devant la Cour d’assises de Paris, 2016-2018, Doctoral dissertation, Political Sciences, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2023.

• The ‘Foundation Auschwitz – Jacques Rozenberg Prize’ (€3,125) to Justina SMALKYTE for her work Espace, objets, corps: les matérialités des résistances antinazies en Lituanie sous occupation allemande (1941-1944), Doctoral dissertation, History, Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Paris, 2024.

•  The ‘Foundation Auschwitz Research Grant’ (€3,125) to Nicolas MORZELLE for his research project Les premiers convois de déportation des Juifs de France avant le rafle du Vél d’Hiv (mars-juin 1942) at the Université de Caen-Normandie.

• The ‘The Foundation Auschwitz – Jacques Rozenberg Research Grant’ (€3,125) to Nel DE MUELENAERE for her research project Rebels in Exile: Austrian Resistance to Nazi Occupation in Belgium, 1938-1945 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

The academic session for the presentation of the Foundation Auschwitz Prizes 2024-2025, will take place on Thursday 23 October 2025 at 6 PM sharp (guest welcome from 5:30 PM) in the Gothic Room of Brussels City Hall.

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