Award ceremony of the Heilbronn Foundation

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 7 March 1944 to 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 World War II in France.

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

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

– To Madam Justine Isenbrandt for his thesis "Between philanthropy and productivisation: the Jewish schools of work in France from emancipation to reconstruction" at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of the professor Laura Hobson Faure
– To Madame 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 Prize against racism and antisemitism:
To Professors Sacha Betton, a French teacher and Isabelle Louvet, a history-geography teacher at Jorissen Middle School in Drancy, for the 2024-2025 project: "Letter to the absent: memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda" theatrical adaptation of the work of Dorcy Rugamba, genocide survivor, 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 Madam Johanna Lehr For: "In the name of law – The daily persecution of Jews in Paris under the Occupation," at Editions Gallimard.

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