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- 1 2 "The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research"
- ↑ "Highlights of Yad Vashem's Activities in 2018".
- ↑ "Hunt for the Jews snags Yad Vashem book prize", Times of Israel (JTA), 8 December 2014.
- ↑ "Professor Jan Grabowski wins the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize", Yad Vashem, 4 December 2014.
- ↑ "Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research Awarded to Christoph Dieckmann for his monumental work on Lithuania under German Occupation", a press release
- ↑ "First International Yad Vashem Book Prize for Holocaust Research Awarded to Christopher Browning and Daniel Blatman", a press release