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
Individual evidence
- ↑ The award for moral courage (PDF), on dachau.de (accessed on May 2, 2019)
- ↑ Price for civil courage 2019 , in Meine-beispielung.de from April 18, 2019
- ↑ Brochure about the award winner Maria Seidenberger (PDF)
- ↑ Brochure about the awardee Lina Haag (PDF) ( Memento from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Brochure about the award winner Mirijam Ohringer (PDF) ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de of June 8, 2011
- ↑ Press release from the City of Dachau ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Laudation by Wolfgang Benz on the occasion of the 2013 award ceremony (PDF)
- ↑ Laudation by Wolfgang Benz on the occasion of the 2015 award ceremony (PDF)
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Dachau honors Jan-Robert von Renesse , from May 31, 2017
- ↑ Prize for civil courage 2019 , on mymuenchen.de from April 13, 2019