Heilbronn Foundation Awards

The Ernest and Claire Heilbronn Foundation was created in April 2018 by the descendants of Ernest and Claire Heilbronn, deported with their daughter Marcelle, by convoy 69, on March 7, 1944 at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This foundation, under the aegis of the Shoah Memorial, aims to reward those whose work contributes to the history of Jews in France, education against racism and antisemitism, and the history of the Second World War in France.

The jury and the founding members of the Ernest and Claire Heilbronn Foundation unanimously awarded the following prizes:

The 2025 prizes for the doctoral scholarship on the history of the Jews in France:

– To Madame Justine Isenbrandt for his thesis "Between philanthropy and productivisation: the Jewish schools of work in France from emancipation to reconstruction" at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of the Professor Laura Hobson Faure
– To Mrs. Noémie Leroy for her thesis «L'Enfance juive dans le Midi toulousain de 1939 à 1948» at the Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, under the supervision of Professors Jacques Cantier and Patrick Cabanel.

The 2025 Education Award against Racism and Anti-Semitism:
To Professors Sacha Betton, French teacher and Isabelle Louvet, history-geography teacher at the Jorissen college in Drancy, for the project 2024-2025: "Letter to the absent: memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda" theatrical adaptation of the work of Dorcy Rugamba, survivor of the genocide, under the direction of Élishéva Decastel and in coordination with the educational service of the Shoah Memorial in Drancy.

The 2025 prize for the history book on the Jews in France:
To Madame Johanna Lehr for: «In the name of the law – The daily persecution of Jews in Paris under the Occupation», » aux Editions Gallimard.

These awards were presented in the presence of the laureates in the Auditorium of the Shoah Memorial.