Peace Prize of the Korn and Gerstenmann Foundation
The Peace Prize of the Korn and Gerstenmann Foundation in Frankfurt am Main honors international understanding, literary and journalistic efforts to achieve reconciliation in Israel and around the world. It is awarded every three years and is now endowed with 50,000 euros. It was donated by Abraham Korn and his sister Rosa Gerstenmann in 1985 to commemorate their niece Sarah Gerstenmann who was murdered in the Majdanek concentration camp .
Award winners
- 2001 to the former Israeli head of government, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and future President of Israel Shimon Peres (endowment 100,000 DM)
- 2003 to the Israeli writer Amos Oz (endowment 40,000 euros)
- 2006 to Daniel Barenboim , Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor of Russian descent, with Edward Said , as founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded in 1999
- 2009 to the Palestinian Sari Nusseibeh and the Israeli Itamar Rabinovich , former Israeli ambassador to the USA (1992–1995) and chief negotiator in the peace negotiations with Syria (endowment: 40,000 euros each)
- 2012 to Avi Primor , former Ambassador of Israel to the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2015 to Tom Segev , Israeli historian and journalist
- 2018 to the Israeli writer Lizzie Doron and the German writer and translator Mirjam Pressler
Web links
- Article about the first award to Peres
- Netzzeitung on the second award ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Honor for Lizzie Doron and Mirjam Pressler. In: boersenblatt.net. September 4, 2018, accessed September 6, 2019 .
- ↑ cf. Peace prize for two sincere people in the Middle East conflict ( memento from November 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, November 1, 2009
- ^ Award for Lizzie Doron and Mirjam Pressler. In: www.juedische-allgemeine.de. September 4, 2018, accessed September 4, 2018 .