The Elfriede Grünberg Prize (German: Elfriede-Grünberg-Preis) has been conferred annually since 2000 by the Austrian Welser Initiative Against Fascism for merits in the fight against Nazism. The award was named after the Holocaust victim Elfriede Grünberg.
Stolpersteine in Wels commemorating Elfriede Grünberg, her mother and her aunt
Elfriede Grünberg (1929–1942) was murdered by the Nazi regime for racist reasons, like her mother and her aunt. Her father Max was able to emigrate to Shanghai in 1939. On June 9, 1942 Elfriede Grünberg and her mother were deported from Vienna to the Maly Trostenets extermination camp. Six days later, Elfriede was probably killed in a gas van.
Award recipients
2000 Johann Kalliauer, Rudolf Anschober, Wilhelm Achleitner, Raimund Buttinger
2001 Reinhard Kannonier, Rudolf Kropf, Michael John, Erwin Peterseil
2002 Waltraud Neuhauser, Karl Ramsmaier, Josef Adlmannseder, Günter Kalliauer
2003 Herta Eva Schreiber, Rudolf Haunschmid, Albert Langanke, Wolfgang Quatember
2004 Ursula Hüttmayr, Erich Gumplmaier, Andreas Gruber, Wolfgang Neugebauer
2005 Ludwig Laher, Irmgard Schmidleithner, Gunther Trübswasser, Mümtaz Karakurt
