Summary
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]
2018 edit
Awarded to Ion Popa for his book The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust (2017) and to Daniel Reiser for Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira: Sermons from the Years of Rage.[2]
2014 edit
Hunt for the Jews , by Jan Grabowski, won the 2014 award. The book chronicles the role of local Polish citizens in locating and killing hiding Jews. According to the prize committee: it "found Jan Grabowski’s study groundbreaking and exemplary in its approach and methodology, in its analytical quality and in its contribution to the better understanding of the multi-facetedness of the Shoah".[3][4]
2013 edit
The 2013 call for prize is to consider the works published between January 2011 and December 2013. [1]
2012 edit
On December 10, 2012, the award was presented to Christoph Dieckmann, of Keele University (UK), for his 2-volume book Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944 (German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944). [5]
2011 edit
The first award ceremony was at Yad Vashem on January 8, 2012.[6]
- Christopher R. Browning, for his book Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp, 2010
- Daniel Blatman, for his book, The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide, 2010, ISBN 0674050495.
References edit
- ^ a b "The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research"
- ^ "Highlights of Yad Vashem's Activities in 2018".
- ^ "Hunt for the Jews snags Yad Vashem book prize", Times of Israel (JTA), 8 December 2014.
- ^ "Professor Jan Grabowski wins the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize", Yad Vashem, 4 December 2014.
- ^ "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