The Auschwitz Foundation’s research grant for this year has been awarded to Benjamin Ndjama, a Master's student at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for his documentary project on the Rwandan genocide.
The project, titled 'Le génocide rwandais,' focuses on the way in which the memory of the genocide is transmitted and communicated to the younger generations.
Ndjama was one of four recipients of the Auschwitz Foundation’s awards at a ceremony held on Wednesday at 6pm at Brussels City Hall.
The event was attended by various personalities, including Mayor Philippe Close, the President of the Mémoire d’Auschwitz non-profit association, Henri Goldberg, Government officials and representatives of the German and French embassies.
Each year the Auschwitz Foundation awards prizes and scholarships worth €3,125 for academic work that pays tribute to the victims of Nazi concentration camps.
On Wednesday, the Auschwitz Foundation 2021-2022 prize was awarded to Inès Zahra (University of Paris Nanterre) for her doctoral thesis in Performing Arts, which focused on the representation of the trauma resulting from religious wars in French tragedies from 1562 to 1610.
The Auschwitz Foundation – Jacques Rozenberg Prize was awarded to Susanne Barth, a student in humanities and social sciences at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, for her dissertation entitled 'The Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke AG and the Auschwitz Subcamp Blechhammer, 1939-1945.'
A special jury prize was awarded to Rudy Rigaut (University of Artois in Arras, France) for his history thesis on Jews in France's Nord and Pas de Calais departments from the early 19th Century to the late 2010s.
