Ernest and Claire Heilbronn Foundation Awards Ceremony

On Wednesday, June 30 at the Shoah Memorial was held the 3rd award ceremony of the Ernest and Claire Heilbronn Foundation. Created in April 2018 by the descendants of Ernest and Claire Heilbronn from the compensation of the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliations resulting from the antisemitic legislation in force during the Occupation (CIVS) and endowments of 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 entirety 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 rescue and rehabilitation of Jewish survivors of the Nazi camps.

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

The Prize for the history book on the Second World War to Laurent Joly for "the State against the Jews, Vichy, the Nazis and the antisemitic persecution" 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».