Inge Deutschkron Award

The Inge Deutschkron Prize seeks to honor and preserve the values embodied by Inge Deutschkron – honorary citizen of Berlin, author, and Holocaust survivor – and for which she fought throughout her life. For decades, she educated young people in lectures, readings, and personal conversations about the horrors and suffering of National Socialism. Her aim was to strengthen the fight against antisemitic narratives, to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, and to counter the resurgence of far-right tendencies.

The prize recognizes projects by young people in Berlin that continue and build upon the life’s work of Inge Deutschkron. The following themes are at the center: engagement with the Holocaust and remembrance of those persecuted under National Socialism; the rescue of persecuted individuals during the Nazi era; the struggle against right-wing extremism and National Socialism in Berlin after 1945; and dealing with Nazi perpetrators after 1945 in East and West Berlin.

You can apply if you are between 10 and 23 years old and want to carry out such a project in groups of three to thirty people. The link to the application form can be found below. We recommend reading the current call for applications and our Frequently Asked Questions before submitting.

The Inge Deutschkron Prize is a project of the Inge Deutschkron Foundation, organized in cooperation with the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe and the German Resistance Memorial Center Foundation, and funded by the LOTTO Foundation Berlin.

Inge Deutschkron Prize 2025

The first presentation of the Inge Deutschkron Prize took place on July 21, 2025, at the Max Liebermann House in Berlin. Three projects from two Berlin schools were honored. These award-winning projects provide new and creative impulses for a vibrant culture of remembrance and build upon the life’s work of Inge Deutschkron. The awards were presented by Petra Pau, former Vice President of the German Bundestag, and André Schmitz, Chair of the Inge Deutschkron Foundation.

About Inge Deutschkron

Inge Deutschkron was born in Finsterwalde in 1922 and grew up in Berlin. Her father was dismissed in 1933 due to his Jewish background. He managed to flee to Great Britain in 1939. From 1941 to 1943, Inge Deutschkron and her mother worked in Otto Weidt’s workshop for the blind, which saved them and other persecuted Jews from deportation. They were then kept in hiding by friends and were almost constantly on the run and living illegally until liberation on May 8, 1945.

From 1946, Inge Deutschkron lived in Great Britain, where she worked in the office of the Socialist International. She later became Germany correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Maariv and reported on the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt. In response to the way the Holocaust and Israel were dealt with in the 1960s, she emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1972.

In 1989, Inge Deutschkron returned to Berlin for the first time to attend the performance of a theater play based on her book ‘I Wore the Yellow Star’. From 1992, she traveled between Berlin and Tel Aviv for talks, lectures and other events. At the age of almost 80, in 2001, she moved back to Berlin and continued her work there until the end of her life on March 9, 2022.

Inge Deutschkron received numerous awards for her life’s work and became an honorary citizen of Berlin in 2018.