The Annual Award Ceremony of the Foundation Auschwitz Prizes 2025-2026 will take place at the Brussels City Hall on Tuesday 24 November at 6 PM.

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.

The Foundation Auschwitz Prizes have been granted for the academic year 2025-2026 to the following researchers:

• The ‘Foundation Auschwitz Prize’ (€3,000) to Verena MEIER for her work Kriminalpolizei und Völkermord. Die nationalsozialistische Verfolgung von Sinti und Roma in Magdeburg und die Aufarbeitung dessen unter den Alliierten sowie in der DDR, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg.

• The ‘Foundation Auschwitz – Jacques Rozenberg Prize’ (€2,000) to Kaïna LOUNIS TEILLIER for her work The Role of the Ku Klux Klan in the Transatlantic Circulation of Fascism between the United States and Germany from 1918 to 1968, Unpublished master’s thesis, Sorbonne Université, Paris.

• Special Mention from the Jury to Claire ASLANGUL-RALLO for her work Promouvoir l’image de l’Allemagne nazie à l’étranger. Histoire et stratégies de communication du magazine Signal (1940-1945), Unpublished habilitation dissertation, Sorbonne Université, Paris, 2025.

•  The ‘Foundation Auschwitz Research Grant’ (€3,000) to Amélie FAUCHEUX for her project « Umva 1994 » – Le génocide des Tutsi Rwandais par ses témoins (Audio podcast in preparation).

• The ‘Foundation Auschwitz – Jacques Rozenberg Research Grant’ (€3,000) to Nina DOMBOY for her project Vieille âme (Play).

The academic session for the presentation of the Foundation Auschwitz Prizes 2025-2026, will take place on Tuesday 24 November 2026 at 6 PM sharp (guests welcome from 5:30 PM) in the Gothic Hall of Brussels City Hall – Grand-Place – 1000 Brussels (entrance via the Lions stairs), hosted by:

• Mr. Philippe CLOSE, Mayor of the City of Brussels, and the Council of the City of Brussels;
• Baron Henri GOLDBERG, President of the Auschwitz Foundation, and the members of the administrative body.

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