The respective tasks vary from intern to intern depending on the interests of the Gedenkdiener. The primary work is for the Education department. The intern is trained to be a docent to the give tours and helps creating the so-called "teaching trunks" that the museum ships out for free to all schools in the contiguous United States. Other projects include the translation of old German documents and the filming of Holocaust survivors that talk at the museum with school groups regularly. Wellington - Holocaust Centre of New Zealand Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award Andreas Maislinger also initiated the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA), rewarding people who actively contribute to the remembrance of the Holocaust. On 17 October 2006 the Chinese historian Pan Guang was awarded the first AHMA prize. Further recipients were the Brazilian journalist Alberto Dines, French Robert Hébras, who was one of only six people, who survived the Massacre of Oradour and Lithuanian-American Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum Jay M. Ipson. In October 2010 Eva Marks was honored with the AHMA by Austrian Ambassador Hannes Porias in Melbourne. Honoring In 2005 the founder of the Gedenkdienst Andreas Maislinger received the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Silver from the president of Austria, Heinz Fischer, and the Medal of Merit of the state of Tirol from Herwig van Staa and Luis Durnwalder. On 8 November 2009 Maislinger was awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award for "his 10 year fight to obtain official recognition of alternative, philanthropic service" at the Annual Dinner of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust together with Holocaust survivor and producer of Schindler's List Branko Lustig. See also Andreas Maislinger Stefan Stoev Austrian Peace Service Austrian Service Abroad Austrian Social Service House of Responsibility Paper Clips Project References External links Austrian Service Abroad Anti-fascism Holocaust commemoration Holocaust-related organizations Simon Wiesenthal Center Aftermath of World War II in Austria Foreign relations of Austria Innsbruck Braunau am Inn International nongovernmental organizations Non-profit organisations based in Austria Jews and Judaism in Austria Student exchange Organizations established in 1992 The Holocaust in Austria 1992 establishments in Austria