Dachau Prize for moral courage

The Dachau Prize for Civil Courage was launched in 2005 by the City of Dachau on the occasion of the city's 1200th anniversary. With it, the city wants to honor people "who have campaigned with courage, imagination and commitment for the rights of the persecuted and discriminated minorities". The award, which is presented every two years on Human Rights Day (December 10th) in the Dachau concentration camp memorial , and with which the legacy of the victims of the concentration camps and the resistance fighters against the Nazi regime is to be kept alive is with Endowed with 5,000 euros. The jury that proposes the winners most recently consisted of the historian Sybille Steinbacher , the journalist and university professor Sybille Krafft and the artist and cultural scientist Martin Schmidl (as of 2019).

Award winners

2005: Maria Seidenberger, who, as a young girl, passed on letters and photographs from prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp to their relatives at high risk
2007: Lina Haag , resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
2009: Mirjam Ohringer , a Holocaust survivor
2011: Stanislav Zámečník , Holocaust survivor and historian from the Czech Republic
2013: Jörg Wanke, representing the Zossen citizens' initiative Zossen, shows his face
: 2015 Gülsen Çelebi supported, a Düsseldorf lawyer, the Muslim women and against honor killings and Dügida engaged
2017: Jan-Robert von Renesse , for his work as a social judge for ghetto pensions for Holocaust survivors
2019: Seda Basay-Yildiz , a lawyer who, as a joint plaintiff, represented the surviving dependents of victims of the attacks in the NSU trial