Inge Deutschkron Award

The Inge Deutschkron Award aims to honor and preserve what the honorary citizen of Berlin, author and Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron stood for and fought for throughout her life. For decades, she educated young people about the horrors and suffering caused by the Nazi regime in lectures, readings and personal conversations. In doing so, she wanted to strengthen the fight against anti-Semitic narratives and the memory of the Holocaust as well as counteract the resurgence of right-wing extremist tendencies.

The award supports creative projects by young people that build on and continue Inge Deutschkron’s life’s work by addressing the rescue of persecuted people during the Nazi era, the fight against right-wing extremism and National Socialism after 1945 in Berlin, or the dealing with National Socialist perpetrators after 1945 in East and West Berlin.

You can apply until December 15, 2024, if you are between the ages of 14 and 25 and want to create a project in a group of three to 30 people. The link to the application form can be found below, we reccomend y<ou to read the official call for entries, as well as our answers to frequently asked questions before applying.

The Inge Deutschkron Award is a project in cooperation with the Inge Deutschkron Stiftung and the Stiftung Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand.

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.