Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
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The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA) was founded by the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service in 2006. The prize is assigned annually to a person, who has shown special endeavors for the memorial of the Shoa. Since 1992 young Austrians render Holocaust Memorial Service in Argentinia, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Germany, England, France, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Ukraina, Hungary and in the USA. Young Austrians assume responsibility worldwide for the crimes committed also by the Austrian National Socialists.
On October 17, 2006 the Chinese historian Pan Guang was awarded the first AHMA prize.
The Brazilian journalist Alberto Dines was crowned as the AHMA 2007 winner on October 24, 2007 at the Austrian consulate in Rio de Janeiro for his effort to establish Casa Stefan Zweig, a museum devoted to Stefan Zweig in Petropolis, and his outstanding book "Morte no paraíso, a tragédia de Stefan Zweig".
