The Elfriede Grünberg Prize () has been conferred annually since 2000 by the Austrian Welser Initiative Against Fascism for merits in the fight against

Nazism Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was fre ...

. The award was named after the Holocaust victim Elfriede Grünberg.

Namesake

Elfriede Grünberg (1929–1942) was murdered by the Nazi regime for racist reasons, like her mother and her aunt. Her father Max was able to emigrate to Shanghai in 1939. On June 9, 1942, Elfriede Grünberg and her mother were deported from Vienna to the

Maly Trostenets extermination camp Maly Trostenets (Maly Trascianiec, , "Little Trostenets") is a village near Minsk in Belarus, formerly the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. During Nazi Germany's occupation of the area during World War II (when the Germans referred to it as ...

. Six days later, Elfriede was probably killed in a

gas van A gas van or gas wagon (, ; ; ) was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber. During World War II and the Holocaust, Nazi Germany developed and used gas vans on a large scale to kill inmates of asylums, Poles, Romani people, Jews, and prison ...

Award recipients

* 2000 Johann Kalliauer, Rudolf Anschober, Wilhelm Achleitner, Raimund Buttinger * 2001 Reinhard Kannonier, Rudolf Kropf, Michael John, Erwin Peterseil * 2002 Waltraud Neuhauser, Karl Ramsmaier, Josef Adlmannseder, Günter Kalliauer * 2003 Herta Eva Schreiber, Rudolf Haunschmid, Albert Langanke, Wolfgang Quatember * 2004 Ursula Hüttmayr, Erich Gumplmaier, Andreas Gruber, Wolfgang Neugebauer * 2005

Ludwig Laher Ludwig Laher (born 11 December 1955 in Linz) is an Austrian writer. Life Ludwig Laher studied German, English and American Studies, as well as Classical Studies and graduated with a PhD. He then worked as a high school teacher at the Christian- ...

, Irmgard Schmidleithner, Gunther Trübswasser, Mümtaz Karakurt * 2006

Leopold Engleitner Leopold Engleitner (23 July 1905 – 21 April 2013) was an Austrian conscientious objector, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a concentration camp survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experiences. He was the subject of the d ...

Bernhard Rammerstorfer Bernhard Rammerstorfer (born 1968) is an Austrian author and film director. His book ''Unbroken Will'' () is a biography of the Austrian Jehovah's Witness and Holocaust survivor Leopold Engleitner. He later made a documentary film with the same ...

, Irmgard Aschbauer, Georg Oberhaidinger * 2007 Gülcan Gigl, Martin Kranzl-Greinecker,

Gerhard Skiba Gerhard Skiba (1947 – 15 March 2019) was an Austrian politician of the Austrian Social Democratic Party elected mayor of the city of Braunau am Inn in 1989. He became internationally known after setting up a memorial stone for the victims of ...

, Norbert Leitner * 2008 Brigitte Geibinger, Gertraud Jahn, Anita Eyth,

Norbert Trawöger Norbert Trawöger is an Austrian flautist, teacher, writer and designing musician as well as artistic director of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. Life and career Trawöger was born in Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper ...

* 2009 Thomas Böhler, Leo Furtlehner, Walter Hofstätter, Marie-José Simonet * 2010 Martha Gammer, Astrid Hackl, Ernst Huber, Rudolf Lehner * 2011 Peter Lechner,

Andreas Maislinger Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg, St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian political scientist and wiktionary:Founder, founder and former chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad. He also is the fou ...

, Gitta Martl, Uwe Sailer * 2012 Margit Hauft, Christian Schörkhuber, Karin Wagner, Peter Weidner * 2013

Anna Hackl Anna Hackl (born 1931) is a farmer in Schwertberg. In the middle of "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" In February 1945, family Langthaler, who lived in a farmhouse in Schwertberg, hid two Russian prisoners of war: Mikhail Rybchinsky (died 2008) und Nikol ...

, Sonja Ablinger, Maria Buchmayr, Mary Kreutzer * 2014 Mario Born, Hermann Hochreiter, Jürgen Pachner, Markus Rachbauer * 2015 Christian Brandlmaier, Peter Koits, Neue Mittelschule Gunskirchen, Wels hilft * 2016 Ayfer Sinirtaş, Thomas Fatzinek, Pfarrcaritas Wels-Neustadt, Pfarre St. Franziskus Wels * 2017 Café für Alle, Klaus Buttinger, Karl Öllinger, Kathrin Quatember * 2018 Helmut Edelmayr, Open Piano for Refugees, Infoladen Wels, Rudolf Gelbard (posthumous) * 2019 Brigitte Höfert, Hülya Yilmaz, Günter Kaindlstorfer, Verein denkanstoss.at

External links

Reports and further information on the prize, at the site of the Welser Initiative Against Fascism
(in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Elfriede Grunberg Award Holocaust commemoration Austrian awards