Leon Zelman Prize

The Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding is an award from the City of Vienna .

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On the initiative of the Vienna City Councilor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny , the Leon Zelman Prize was created in memory of Leon Zelman (1928–2007), the former head of the Jewish Welcome Service Vienna and publisher of the magazine Das Jüdische Echo . Endowed with 5,000 Euro price donates the City of Vienna for projects and organizations in which the struggle against forgetting and for dialogue between today's Austria and the survivors of Nazi persecution and especially their descendants as the basis for a common future is worked .

Award winners

2013 Association Memorial Service Vienna
2014 Döblinger Gymnasium especially with Martin Krist
2015 Robert Streibel
2016 Gabriele Anderl.
2017 Shalom Alaikum - Jewish Aid for Refugees
2018 Uli Jürgens
2019 Shoshana Duizend-Jensen
2020 Olga Kronsteiner

Individual evidence

↑ The Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2013 Jury: Sophie Lillie art historian, Martina Maschke BMUKK, chairwoman of the association www.erinnern.at, Ari Rath publicist, Peter Schwarz Jewish Welcome Service and managing director of the ESRA association (Vienna) , Armin Thurnher Falter (Weekly newspaper) and author of the autobiography of Leon Zelman, chair: Susanne Trauneck Jewish Welcome Service Vienna
↑ Leon Zelman Prize 2014 to Wiener Gymnasium Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance , 2014
↑ Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2015 goes to Robert Streibel ( Memento from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , 2015
↑ Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2016 goes to Gabriele Anderl OTS announcement of June 10, 2016, accessed on March 13, 2020.
↑ Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2018 awarded to the science journalist Uli Jürgens yesterday evening in the Vienna City Hall . OTS notification dated June 14, 2018, accessed June 15, 2018.
↑ STANDARD employee Olga Kronsteiner receives Leon Zelman Prize. In: derstandard.at . February 11, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020.

[1] The Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2013 Jury: Sophie Lillie art historian, Martina Maschke BMUKK, chairwoman of the association www.erinnern.at, Ari Rath publicist, Peter Schwarz Jewish Welcome Service and managing director of the ESRA association (Vienna) , Armin Thurnher Falter (Weekly newspaper) and author of the autobiography of Leon Zelman, chair: Susanne Trauneck Jewish Welcome Service Vienna

[2] Leon Zelman Prize 2014 to Wiener Gymnasium Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance , 2014

[3] Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2015 goes to Robert Streibel ( Memento from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , 2015

[4] Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2016 goes to Gabriele Anderl OTS announcement of June 10, 2016, accessed on March 13, 2020.

[OTS_20180614_OTS0055-5] Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding 2018 awarded to the science journalist Uli Jürgens yesterday evening in the Vienna City Hall . OTS notification dated June 14, 2018, accessed June 15, 2018.

[6] STANDARD employee Olga Kronsteiner receives Leon Zelman Prize. In: derstandard.at . February 11, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020.