The Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies is an annual student competition with an award of up to $500. Submissions may include essays, research papers, poetry, drama, film, artwork, musical composition, or other creative expression.
Winners from 2024
Jewish Women as Subjects and Creators of Holocaust Art, Digital Commons and Rebekah N. Kalmbach
shades of memory, Lexi Golab
Panoramic View in front of and behind my façade: Perceptions of a Viennese palace, Anna-Maria Hubel
Sonic Salvation: A Neuroscientific Exploration of Music's Role in Cultural Preservation in the Wake of the Holocaust, Regan K. Recklaus
Dogma: How a Convenient Narrative Led to the Holocaust, Morgan R. Schroeder
Winners from 2023
Where Words Cannot Express, Abigale E. Ernst
My Butterfly, Alice G. Pellemoine
Winners from 2022
From the Eyes of Art, Lauren E. Anderson
Winners from 2021
Starting Anew: Jewish Immigrants and Refugees sent to America’s Midwest from Nazi and Post WWII Germany, Quinn Fabish
Family Hope and Support Through The Holocaust, Gwendolyn Flannery
Teaching Our Past to Preserve Our Future: Ignorance and the Insurrection, Haleigh Jacocks
The Last Prisoners of War: How Nazi-Looted Art is Displayed in U.S. Museums, Monica May Thompson
Winners from 2020
The Problem of Jewish Agency in The Holocaust: 1939-1945, Joseph Knapik
The National Socialists and How They Ostracized an Entire Population, Kathryn Weber
Winners from 2019
Consolations, Joshua Iyer
Children That Never Grew Wrinkles, Mia Polinski
Winners from 2018
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Anti-Semitism, Hopelessness, and the Rise of the Nazi Party, Benjamin E. Bruster
“The Shawl”: Of Which Bears the Facade, Giselle Carter
Winners from 2017
S.S. Schatten Schmidt, Emma Albers-Lopez
Belsen Silence, Monica Gil
To See in Color, Sarah Rebban
Winners from 2016
The Scapegoat, Katherine Ludwig
Winners from 2015
Surviving the Holocaust: Catharsis Through Music, Amanda Hassler
A Flight for Hope, Emma Levich
Continued Remembrance, Abbigail Mehnert
The Art of Censorship, Mark Sieber
Wagner Contra Mundum: Wagner versus the World, Caitlin A. Thom