Award ceremony of the Ernest and Claire Heilbronn Foundation

On Wednesday, June 30 at the Shoah Memorial took place the 3rd award ceremony of the Ernest and Claire Heilbronn Foundation. Created in April 2018 by the descendants of Ernest and Claire Heilbronn on the basis of compensation from the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliations due to the antisemitic legislation in force during the Occupation (CIVS) and endowments from the descendants of Jacques Heilbronn, this foundation is under the aegis of the Shoah Memorial. Recognized as a public utility, its purpose is to reward those who, through their work and research, contribute to the history of Jews in France, education against racism and antisemitism, and the history of the Second World War in France.

For this third edition, the jury and the founding members of the Ernest and Claire Heilbronn Foundation unanimously awarded the following 2020 prizes:

An exceptional prize for the whole of his work to Serge Klarsfeld.

The doctoral scholarship award on the history of the Jews in France to Laure Fourtage for her thesis: "And after? A History of the Relief and Rehabilitation of Jewish Survivors of Nazi Camps."

The Education Prize against racism and antisemitism to Alexandre Bande, associate professor of history at Janson High School in Sailly, for his work on the deportation of Jewish students from Janson and for his project with a class from Hypokhâgne. "Study in the Auschwitz camps and its annexes on the deportation of Jews from France".

The History Book Prize on the Second World War to Laurent Joly for "l'Etat contre les Juifs, Vichy, les nazis et la persécution antisémite" in 2018, pocket 2020 and for the issue of the Revue de l'Histoire de la Shoah in 2020 that he coordinated: "Vichy, the French and the Shoah, a state of scientific knowledge".