The Auschwitz Foundation awards annually two research prizes in honour of all victims of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centres, the ‘Auschwitz Foundation Prize’, since 1986, and the ‘Auschwitz Foundation – Jacques Rozenberg Prize’, since 2002 with the support of the Rozenberg-Caillet Foundation.

The prizes have as objective to encourage and support scientific research. In particular unpublished research into historical, social, political, economic, cultural and ideological processes that have led to mass crimes, crimes against humanity and genocides.

• The ‘Auschwitz Foundation Prize’ is awarded for research works (such as doctoral dissertations, book manuscripts,…) and amounts to €3,000

• The ‘Auschwitz Foundation – Jacques Rozenberg Prize’ is awarded for master’s theses and amounts to €2,000.

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 prize application meets all requirements.

You can apply by submitting the appropriate application form before 15 December 2025.

For further information, please contact the Auschwitz Foundation.

Overview of the laureates of the International Auschwitz Foundation Awards

Award ceremonies on our YouTube channel

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 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 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).