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Dear Readers,
Antisemitism has long been part of digital pop culture. This is a fire hazard. On platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, as well as in gaming communities, antisemitism is often coded and "expressed in game language". It's sometimes very well disguised manifestations are a growing danger, as a recent study demonstrates.
In order to strengthen knowledge about National Socialist crimes and to counter antisemitism, as well as antigypsyism, racism and LGBTIQ hostility today, the EVZ Foundation launched a new project with funding from the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF): the Education Agenda NS-Injustice. With the first 17 projects, we initiated innovative and effective projects in the summer of 2021 for the purpose of critical examination of National Socialism and its continuing effects. In this newsletter, we will take you on a tour d'horizon of the projects that have been launched and their activities.
From January 2022 we will use this channel to keep you informed even move frequently about our initiatives, projects and other issues that concern all of us.
Until then: Stay connected and get involved with us!
Your
Andrea Despot & Petra Follmar-Otto |
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| We stand in solidarity with Memorial International |
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| The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has applied for "liquidation" of the Memorial International NGO in Moscow. The case has been before Russia's Supreme Court since November 25, 2021. And the members of the Board of Directors of the EVZ Foundation say: "We stand in solidarity with Memorial International. Our primary concern is for all of Memorial colleagues in Moscow. We are also concerned about the continuity of the internationally valued commitment to coming to terms with Stalinism but also with the National Socialist crimes during World War II, as well as the work for human rights and democracy based on this." |
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| Sustainability is broadly anchored in the EVZ Foundation's financial investments |
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| The EVZ Foundation's Board of Trustees adopted the ESG Investment Guidelines in November 2021. The focus is on environmental, social and corporate governance aspects which are linked to the Foundation’s purpose. This includes in particular the exclusion of today's forms of unfree labor and violations of human rights in their financial investments. In this way, the EVZ Foundation will orient its investments towards central social and political goals as defined in particular by the Paris Agreement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Global Compact. |
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Junges Schauspiel Frankfurt: Am Leben bleiben (staying alive)
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On December 10, the play "Am Leben bleiben" had its premiere in the German National Library’s German Exile Archive 1933–1945 in Frankfurt am Main. An inclusive and diverse youth ensemble has explored six biographies from the exhibition "Kinderemigration aus Frankfurt" (Child Emigration from Frankfurt) and translated them into text, movement, sound and image.
Further performances will follow on December 17, 2021, February 24, March 1 and April 28, 2022.
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Arolsen Archives: #LastSeen
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The project #LastSeen focuses on images of the deportations from the Third Reich between 1938 and 1945. The photographs show the final moment of exclusion from society - in public. They are especially suitable for conveying and understanding the effective mechanisms of National Socialism. The initiative systematically indexes pictures that are already known and collects further as yet unknown pictures in the context of public searches.
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Munich Kammerspiele: Audio feature on artistic memory work
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For the first time, a cultural institution is engaging in a critical examination of its own historical involvements: 200 biographies of disenfranchised, persecuted and murdered employees of the Kammerspiele during the National Socialist era are made available in a digital archive and a series of podcasts. The Chair of the Board of Trustees, Annette Schavan, spoke in a feature about opportu-nities for artistic approaches to educational work with young people.
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| Time for figures, dates and facts |
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| The Foundation's first and thus oldest funding project started its work in Israel in 2001. The Foundation's first grant was awarded to AMCHA to provide home visits by psychologists and social workers to Holocaust survivors in Israel. Since then, the Foundation has provided AMCHA with funding amounting to a total of EUR 1,839,144. |
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| Live-Event: YOUNG PEOPLE remember – Shaping the Future of Remembrance together |
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| At the public kick-off of the network meeting of the 25 funded projects, representatives of funded projects, experts as well as young activists talked about what a lively, inclusive, participatory and transnationally oriented culture of remembrance might look like. The recording is available online. |
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| Special prize in a school newspaper competition: Jewish Life in Germany |
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| As part of the youth campaign #tsuzamen - young people's perspectives on Jewish life, the EVZ Foundation is awarding a special prize in the 2022 school newspaper competition of the German Federal States. Up to January 15, 2022 pupils can submit their contributions on Jewish life in Germany to Jugendpresse Deutschland (Youth Press Germany). |
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Exhibition: The CityLab on the search for traces today – Frankfurt and Nazism |
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| Where can you find traces of National Socialism in Frankfurt am Main? A group of Frankfurt residents set out in search of clues for the CityLab of the Historical Museum Frankfurt. In a participatory process, they examined places, things or events that remind them personally of the National Socialist era and its ongoing effects and conceived an exhibition. The CityLab Exhibition is part of the three-part exhibition project "Frankfurt and Nazism" which will run until September 11, 2022. |
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| Exhibition: Missing Stories. Forced Labour under Nazi Occupation. An Artistic Approach. |
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Forced labor during the German occupation is hardly anchored in the collective consciousness in the Balkans. A pilot project by artists from Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Germany proposes to close this gap: The topic of forced labor was dealt with across national borders; individual fates were documented and artistically presented.
Upcoming dates in Germany:
Augsburg: until January 9, 2022 at H2 - Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast
Berlin: from January 27, 2022 at the Willy-Brandt-Haus |
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Antisemitism in the dark social: Project results online
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Antisemitic related crimes have been rising steadily since 2015, peaking in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. In this context, the "dark social" beyond the digital mass platforms in particular is an accelerator of radicalization. In order to better understand the role of these networks, polisphere carried out a comparative analysis of current antisemitic phenomena.
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Conference series Blickwinkel: Antisemitism and Racism Critical Forum for Education and Science
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Under the title "Equal unequal. Thinking antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism together", this year's Blickwinkel conference was held digitally in October. It was co-organized by the EVZ Foundation and highlighted specific features and entanglements of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. Director Dr. Petra Follmar-Otto moderated the introductory and title panel. The recording of the panel discussion as well as the impulses are still available online.
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Publication: Memories of the Leningrad Blockade
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September was the 80th anniversary of the siege of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht. Many survivors of this unparalleled war crime still live in Berlin today. Club Dialog e.V. organizes regular meetings of the "Blokadniki". Historical eyewitnesses talk about their memories in a new booklet.
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Together against digital hate speech towards Roma
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The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC), in cooperation with local organizations in the Czech Republic and Ukraine, will bring cases of online hate speech against Roma before national or European courts. Moreover, a network of activists is being developed in the project "Online Hate Speech against Roma: Strategic Litigation and Capacity Building in the Czech Republic and Ukraine".
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Stiftung Erinnerung,
Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ)
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Responsible:
Dr. Andrea Despot
Editorial:
Katrin Kowark, Sophie Ziegler
Image Credits:
Jessica Schäfer; Stadtarchiv München;
HMF, Katharina Müller; polisphere
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