2023 IHRA
GRANT CALL WINNERS
We are pleased to announce that the winners of the IHRA Grant Program have now been chosen. This year, the IHRA Grant Program received a record number of applications from across the world.
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The IHRA’s Grant Review Committee, which is comprised of experts from various disciplines related to education and remembrance on the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma, have now chosen 16 projects to fund from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. Among other topics, these projects will collect and publish new survivor and witness testimonies, develop new toolkits and guidelines for educators and policymakers, tackle online Holocaust distortion, and locate and publish undiscovered historical archives.
Over the course of the past year, the IHRA Grant Program was updated following an external evaluation of the program. Today, the application process is simpler, there is greater outreach to publicize the grant program to organizations who may not be aware of it, and there is now an obligation for each grant recipient to integrate IHRA tools and resources into their project.
We are happy to report that these changes to the Grant Program have borne fruit. We received a diverse array of proposals from new organizations who have previously not worked with the IHRA and every project will now integrate existing IHRA tools and resources into their project design. This means that our expert-produced resources are now reaching new audiences in new locations.
Additionally, following Russia’s full-scale invasion, the IHRA has prioritized funding organizations applying from Ukraine. We have funded four Ukrainian organizations and two more organizations working with Ukrainian partners. These projects focus on collecting witness testimonies and safeguarding archives currently under threat due to the war. One of the projects will identify additional names of the victims of the Babyn Yar massacre, another will locate and preserve new archival records from the Transcarpathia region in western Ukraine, and another will train Ukrainian scholars working in Holocaust studies.
The winner of the Professor Yehuda Bauer Grant for a project which undertakes new and significant research on the Holocaust and antisemitism is the University of Warsaw for their research project assessing the role of Holocaust distortion in populist politics in central and eastern Europe.
The participants of this project will assess the role of Holocaust distortion in populist politics in Central and Eastern Europe by following three aspects that generate a high risk of Holocaust distortion in populist-governed countries: negation of expert knowledge (including established findings about Holocaust history), reliance on conspiracist visions of society (leading to antisemitic resentment, including secondary antisemitism), and whitewashing of national history (ostensibly in the interest of “the pure people”).
In a dedicated module to a large nationwide representative survey study conducted in Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia, the links between the endorsement of populist visions of democracy and the tendency to distort Holocaust history will be tested.
The project’s scholars will utilize their recently created quantitative measures of Holocaust history distortions and established measures of populism to elicit the link and mechanisms that connect populist attitudes with Holocaust distortions. Generating such knowledge will serve as a tool to effectively confront Holocaust distortion in societies at risk of populism.
See the details of all funded projects.
If you are interested in applying for IHRA funding, please do so from June 19. Further details on the grant call will be published nearer the time on IHRA website.