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Yad Vashem Book Prize 2012
Dr Christoph Dieckmann, Lecturer for Modern European History (Research Institute for the Humanities) has been awarded the Yad Vashem Book Prize 2012 for his study German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944, published in German in September 2011. The jury of Yad Vashem stated, "his book has been awarded the prize for a path-breaking book in Holocaust studies published in the years 2010-2011."
Yad Vashem was established in 1953 in Jerusalem in order to enshrine and preserve the memory of the six million Jews annihilated by Nazi Germany, and the thousands of flourishing Jewish communities destroyed in the process. As an academic centre it specialises in education, research and documentation.
The prize is named in memory of Holocaust survivor Abraham Meir Schwartzbaum and those of his family who were murdered in the Holocaust. It is awarded annually and the international jury looks at research on the Holocaust published in the two preceding years. Research accuracy, scholarship, methodology, originality, importance of the research topic and literary merit are considered.
The award ceremony will take place on 10 December 2012 in Jerusalem, during which Dr Dieckmann will present a lecture on his study.
Dr Dieckmann is undertaking a period of research leave (2011 to 2013) at the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, for a study on The Stereotype‚ Jewish Bolshewism’ and early Jewish Reactions in the 1920s.
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