An extensive program of “memorials of spirit in the creative works of arts and letters” was announced in connection with the 30th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Josef Rosensaft of New York, president of the World Federation of the Bergen-Belsen Survivors. Centering about the 30th anniversary of the uprising, which will be commemorated April 19, the program of awards, publications and conferences throughout the world will involve an expenditure by the Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association of over a quarter of a million dollars. Twelve distinguished writers have been named as winners of two special Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Awards of $5000 each and 10 Remembrance Awards of $2500 each.
The two special Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Awards of $5000 each were given to Israel’s leading poet, Uri Zvi Greenberg, and to Dr. Jacob Robinson, an international jurist who is the outstanding historian of the holocaust. The 10 Remembrance, Awards of $2500 each for works of distinction in the literature of the holocaust were conferred upon two Americans, four Israelis, three Frenchmen and one Norwegian. The American winners are: Daniel Stern of New York, author of the novel, “Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die.” (English), and S. L. Shneiderman of New York, author of “When the Vistula Spoke Yiddish…,” (Yiddish)-dealing with the perished Jewish communities in central Poland.
A major undertaking, made possible by a grant from the Bergen-Belsen Federation, is the definitive comprehensive history of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, now in preparation by a group of historians of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This will be a companion study to a similar project on armed Jewish resistance against the Nazis recently completed.
An International Conference of Holocaust Studies of some eighty scholars and students will be held in Sept. 1974 at the University of London, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Remembrance Award Committee. The conference will deal with philosophical and historical implications of the holocaust and the literature of the holocaust.
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