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Distinguished Achievement Award

HEFNU bestows Disintinguished Achievement Awards at the biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference. Honorees are selected by a committee that recognizes their extraordinary contributions to the field of Holocaust Studies through groundbreaking scholarship and devotion to students.
These remarkable people have earned the Distinguished Achievement Award:

2024
Debórah Dwork
Barbara Engelking
Henry “Hank” Greenspan
Berel Lang

2022
Sara Horowitz
Dan Michman
Alan Steinweis

2018
Doris Bergen
Richard Breitman
Dalia Ofer

2016
David Cesarani
Peter Francis Hayes
Marion Kaplan
Lawrence L. Langer

2014
Roger Brooks
Dagmar Herzog
Steven T. Katz
Francis R. Nicosia

2012
Jan T. Gross
John K. Roth
Nechama Tec

2010
Omer Bartov
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Yehuda Bauer

2008
Christopher Browning
Saul Friedländer
Michael Marrus