The Auschwitz Foundation awards annually two research grants in honour of all victims of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centres, the ‘Auschwitz Foundation Research Grant’, since 2012, and the ‘Auschwitz Foundation – Jacques Rozenberg Research Grant’, since 2023 with the support of the Rozenberg-Caillet Foundation.

The ‘Auschwitz Foundation Research Grant’ and the ‘Auschwitz Foundation – Jacques Rozenberg Research Grant’ each amount to €3,000.
They are awarded for original research projects on the historical, social, political, economic, cultural and ideological processes that gave rise to mass crimes, crimes against humanity and genocides.

Are you looking (additional) funding for your research project? Please check this overview (pdf) to determine which award or research grant your research project is eligible for.
Please also carefully check the regulations (pdf) to ensure that your grant application meets all requirements.

You can apply by submitting the appropriate application form before 15 January 2026.

For further information, please contact the Auschwitz Foundation.

Overview of the laureates of the International Auschwitz Foundation Grants

Award ceremonies on our YouTube channel

The Foundation Auschwitz Research Grants have been attributed for the academic year 2024-2025 to the following researchers:

• The ‘Foundation Auschwitz Research Grant’ (€3,125) to Nicolas MORZELLE for his research project Au seuil de la « solution finale » : 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 ‘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 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 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.

To attend the academic session, prior registration is required (mentioning name, position and e-mail address).