Award Ceremony - The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research
The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research is dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust survivor Abraham Meir Schwarzbaum and his family members murdered in the Holocaust: parents Yitzchak and Sara Salamonowicz, sister Rivka Friedman, and brothers Hershel, Gershon, Moshe and Pincash Mendel. Meir Schwarzbaum, born in Częstochowa on Hanukkah, December 1922, survived the Holocaust in ghettos and camps, among them Theresienstdat and Buchenwald. Born Meir Salamonowicz and later known as Schwarzbaum, he built himself a new life after the war, dedicated to Holocaust commemoration. His daughter, Sabina Schwartzbaum, took it upon herself to continue his legacy, and to carry to torch of memory as an example for the generations to come.
Programme
14:30 Gathering
15:00 Award Ceremony
Opening Remarks and MC: Prof. Dina Porat
Judges' Considerations: Prof. Dan Michman
Greetings: Sabina Schwarzbaum
Lecture by Prize Recipient
Dr. Kim Wünschmann, University of Sussex
"The Concentration Camps of the 1930s and the Antisemitic Terror in Nazi Germany"
Musical Interlude: Atar Trio
A PDF of the programme is available here.