Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research
The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research is an annual award by Yad Vashem in recognition of high scholarly research and writing on the Holocaust or its antecedents and aftermath published two years preceding the year of the award. It was established in 2011 in memory of Abraham Meir Schwartzbaum, Holocaust survivor, and his family who was murdered in the Holocaust.[1]
2013
The 2013 call for prize is to consider the works published between January 2011 and December 2013. [1]
2012
On December 10, 2012, the award was presented to Dr. Christoph Dieckmann, of Keele University (UK), for his 2-volume book Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944 (German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944). [2]
2011
The first award ceremony was at Yad Vashem on January 8, 2012.[3]
- Prof. Christopher R. Browning, for his book Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp, 2010
- Prof. Daniel Blatman, for his book, The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide, 2010, ISBN 0674050495.
References
- 1 2 "The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research"
- ↑ "Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research Awarded to Christoph Dieckmann for his monumental work on Lithuania under German Occupation", a press release
- ↑ "First International Yad Vashem Book Prize for Holocaust Research Awarded to Christopher Browning and Daniel Blatman", a press release