The Annual Award Ceremony of the Auschwitz Foundation Prizes 2023-2024 will take place at the Brussels City Hall on Friday 22 November at 6 PM.

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.

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.

•  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 (Grand-Place – 1000 Brussels; entry via the Lions staircase), hosted by:

• Mr Philippe CLOSE, Mayor of the City of Brussels, and by the Council of Aldermen of the City of Brussels
• Mr Henri GOLDBERG, President, and by the Board of Directors of Remembrance of Auschwitz

and will be honoured by the presence of :

• Mr Anton MUYLDERMANS, Chief of Cabinet to Mr Thomas DERMINE, State Secretary for Economic Recovery and Strategic Investments, in charge of Science Policy, added to the Minister of the Economy and Employment
• Mr Martin KOTTHAUS, Ambassador of Germany to Belgium
• Mr Xavier LAPEYRE de CABANES, Ambassador of France to Belgium
• Mr Nicholas BROUSSEAU, Ambassador of Canada to Belgium

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