Neuigkeiten von der Stiftung EVZ und ihren Projekten.
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| EVZ FOUNDATION 4/2022: MAY 2, 2022 |
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| A volunteer on TikTok describes everyday life in the Neuengamme concentration camp - the video has received more than 40,000 likes. On Instagram, a fictional Sophie Scholl talks about student life, potato recipes, her own arrest and murder - 765,000 people follow the account. |
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Newly narrated culture of remembrance formats already found their audience a long time ago. Videos on the internet, feature films as well as talks with friends are some of the most popular ways in which young people engage in dialog according to the MEMO Youth Study funded by the EVZ Foundation.
The EVZ Foundation is going to provide its project sponsors with "rehearsal spaces" for an innovative culture of remembrance, whilst enhancing the social discourse about these types of narratives at the same time. After all, they are not without controversy. They sometimes tread a fine line: mixing fact and fiction, perpetrator-victim reversal, or even violating the Beutelsbach Consensus, the fundamental principles for historical-political education.
We asked Prof. Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, media scientist Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann as well as the historian Dr. Iris Groschek to debate the pros and cons of the "Ich bin Sophie Scholl" [I am Sophie Scholl] project. Read the articles about it on our website. Come and talk to us about it; write to our Communication Team!
Kind regards
Dr. Andrea Despot
CEO of the EVZ Foundation
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| EVZ FOUNDATION RECEIVES AWARD |
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| Anniversary website receives iF Design Award |
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| We're proud: The Foundation's anniversary website, that was launched in June 2021 to mark the 20th anniversary of the first payments made to former forced laborers, receives the prestigious design award in the website category. On the technical level, the site was implemented by the Berlin agency 3pc. |
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| CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NS INJUSTICE EDUCATION AGENDA |
| Seeking innovative projects |
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| Applications in response to three further funding program calls can be submitted up to June 23: Artistic explorations of the crimes of NS "euthanasia", art projects on the musical legacy of the victims of injustices of National Socialism as well as participatory and interactive mapping projects. |
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| SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS |
| Stiftungsvermögen strategisch einsetzen |
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In November 2021 the EVZ Foundation's Board of Trustees adopted the ESG Investment Guidelines; this paves the way for a contemporary sustainable investment of the Foundation's assets. But what challenges and prospects arise from sustainability strategies in the sphere of capital investments? On February 9, Ann-Grit Lehmann, Head of Finance at the EVZ Foundation, discussed these issues with prominent experts at the ESMT Societal Impact Financing Initiative (SciFi) roundtable "Strategically deploying foundation assets".
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| SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE |
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| How the EVZ Foundation projects help on site |
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| The EVZ Foundation has managed to provide approximately EUR 1 million in emergency relief to more than 35 projects in Ukraine since February 24. For example, the NGO Yellow Bags is currently providing basic essentials to 100 Roma families and internally displaced persons, mainly in the Transcarpathian region of West Ukraine. The EVZ Foundation has also supported development of the infrastructure of the newly established aid network for survivors of National Socialist persecution in Ukraine, among other things. |
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| FUNDING PROGRAM CALL FOR APPLICATIONS |
| Strengthening Sinti and Roma in Germany |
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| During the time of National Socialism, Roma and Sinti were persecuted; they are marginalized and discriminated against to this day. In the current call for applications, project ideas are sought that strengthen the self-organizations of Roma and Sinti and/or their equal participation. We especially welcome initiatives of Roma and Sinti for girls and women! A supporting program committee, which includes members of minorities, will make a selection from all the submitted project ideas. |
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| Apply up to May 2 |
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| INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM |
| Living with the Holocaust |
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| "Living with the Holocaust" - this refers first of all directly to the actual survivors. How did they deal with their history of suffering; and how were memories, experiences and traumas passed on within families? Funds raised from the symposium, organized by the Barenboim-Said Academy and AMCHA Germany and funded by the EVZ Foundation, will go to AMCHA Germany in order to support medical aid in Ukraine. |
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| Learn more about the program |
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| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY |
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| Flower for a Survivor |
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| Home visits and recreational activities by volunteers with more than 2,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel: For 19 years the EVZ Foundation has been funding the project "Flower for a Survivor - Coping with the Loneliness of Ageing Holocaust Survivors" by the Foundation for the Welfare of Holocaust Victims (R.A.) Keren Shoah. During the pandemic, the loneliness and social isolation of the elderly survivors are a special challenge for volunteers who provide information, advice and consolation. A Social Impact Report as well as a short film illustrate the work. |
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| JUGEND SCHREIBT |
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| Rolf Joseph Award: Writing competition for school students |
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| "Na, alles koscher?! – Jüdisches Leben damals und heute" [Hey, is everything kosher? – Jewish life then and now]: This is the theme of the 2022 Rolf Joseph Award. Contributions from school students in grades 5 to 13 will be awarded in cooperation with the "Jugend schreibt" [Youth Writes] page of the FAZ. The award was established as a result of the commitment of high school students from the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin after an encounter with the Holocaust survivor Rolf Joseph in 2014. The EVZ Foundation it’s funding the writing competition. |
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| NEW EDUCATIONAL OFFER IN BERLIN |
| Wer war Mod? [Who was Mod?] Historical-political education workshop |
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| Mod Helmy, an Egyptian doctor living in Berlin, protected a Jewish family during the time of National Socialism and supported forced laborers. His biography is the starting point of the workshop "Wer war Mod?" [Who was Mod?] The question of room for maneuver and of BIPoC's position allows a multi-voiced approach to the history of National Socialism. The offer is aimed at high school classes as well as extracurricular groups. |
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| EXPERIENCE LOCAL HISTORY |
Steinerne Erinnerungen – a forgotten cemetery on film
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| A cemetery hidden behind an industrial park at the end of a cul-de-sac in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg. The stories of the Yugoslavian prisoners of war of the Stalag III A POW camp buried here are the starting point for a short film about the camp and the cemetery. The young participants of the German-Serbian project "History from Below“ of the organization INWOLE e.V went in search of relatives, started a campaign in social media – and actually found what they were looking for! |
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| SERIOUS GAME |
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| New release "Train to Sachsenhausen" |
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| Czech students protested against the German occupation and annexation of the Czech Republic in 1939. As a result, Czech universities were closed and many students were deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Interested persons can now get closer to these dramatic events through the newly released serious game "Train to Sachsenhausen" which was brought about within the YOUNG PEOPLE remember funding program. |
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| With the beginning of the war of aggression on Ukraine, the association Wheels e.V. helped students and teachers from the National University of Arts and actors from the National Theater in Kharkiv to escape. Students were placed at various drama schools to continue their studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Together with the refugee Ukrainian actors, Wheels is developing the performance "Little World War", which will premiere in Heidelberg and Neuried in June. In mid-May, the Ukrainian-German theater ensemble will hold a workshop on "Communication in International Theater and Multilingualism" together with the acting ensemble of the Berlin Theater an der Parkaue – the results will be presented on May 20 at the Parkaue. |
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The ZukunftPlus e.V. project "(In) Visible Stories" aims to tell the little-known story of Maghreb forced laborers under National Socialism in the communities and to disseminate it and remember it. In networking meetings, Maghreb history enthusiasts address National Socialist history, the National Socialist interconnection with Maghreb soldiers as well as colonialism. National memorial sites as well as regional places of remembrance are visited in this connection. The project is funded by the Foundation EVZ in the program Migration and culture of remembrance.
The third meeting of the players explores some central questions: Who has the power to interpret terminology? What racist continuities in the use of language do we recognize today? Which terms are used by appropriation and reinterpretation to defame BIPoC communities and by whom? In the context of Labor Day on May 1, the guest workers – who came to Germany in the course of the Anwerbeabkommen (recruitment agreement) and for whom there is still a lack of reappraisal and recognition in German memory work – were acknowledged. The Moroccan recruitment agreement will be 60 years old in 2023. |
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| Report on the meeting by project manager Mariam Belyouaou |
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| SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG |
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| The elderly are still here |
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| Who looks after survivors of National Socialist persecution in Ukraine – the SZ asked this question and presented EVZ Foundation projects: "Lyuba Danylenko also helps. This Ukrainian worked for the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" (EVZ) for many years, helping victims of the time of National Socialism and their relatives. The day before the war began in February, she fled with her five-year-old son to the southwestern Ukrainian town of Uzhgorod. That was where she received a request from the EVZ. She was asked whether she saw opportunities to help with her contacts. She said yes." |
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| DIE ZEIT |
| Witnesses killed, archives destroyed, documents under threat |
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| With the war of aggression against Ukraine, the nation's cultural memory could also be lost; historian Bert Hoppe explains: "Since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, the archive reading rooms have been closed, and the buildings are guarded by members of the National Guard to protect them against attacks. However, Ukraine's historical memory is vulnerable to Russian missiles and shells." |
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| DAS ERSTE |
| The long road of the Sinti and Roma |
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| "Der lange Weg der Sinti und Roma [The Long Road of the Sinti and Roma] is a film about history which is not finished; it's about son era that still has an effect today. A film about yesterday for today," reads the announcement in the ARD media library. Based on personal life stories, the film renders the history of Germany's biggest national minority visible. Adrian Oeser, who made the film, was supported for his project by an EVZ-funded scholarship of the German Institute for Human Rights in cooperation with RomaniPhen. |
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| MAY 5 & MAY 19, DIGITAL |
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| EVZ Conversations! on the Ukraine war: Historical images and current challenges in memory work |
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| In the new digital format EVZ Conversations! for the EVZ Academy expanded, representatives from institutions of memory work, history politics and science talk in two editions about the instrumentalization of history in Russia's war in Ukraine. Participants include historians Dr. Bert Hoppe and Bozhena Kozakevych, Deborah Hartmann, House of the Wannsee Conference, and Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. |
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| Register and watch recordings |
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| MAY 18, BERLIN |
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| Historical eyewitness interview with Rita Prigmore |
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| Rita Prigmore is a survivor of the genocide against the Sinti and Roma by the National Socialists. She talks about her experiences in this historical eyewitness interview. The long-term consequences of the Holocaust on the community in all areas of life are also discussed. |
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| JUNE 10-16, NEURIED & LAHR |
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| "The Little World War" celebrates premiere |
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| Together with the Berlin-based organization Wheels e.V., actors from Kharkiv developed a theater project that addresses, among other things, the current situation in Ukraine. The first performances of the play "The Little World War" will take place in mid-June at the Theater Eurodistrict Baden Alsace. |
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| JUNE 20 & 21, LEIPZIG |
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| Blickwinkel 2022 |
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| "Objectively understood, subjectively affected" is the motto at the conference – funded by the EVZ Foundation – of the Anne Frank Educational Center in 2022 and asks about the relationship between categories and perception in relation to antisemitism and racism. |
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| Participate in the conference |
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| JUNE 20-24, DIGITAL |
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| Save the date: "Education Drives the Future" |
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| For the EVZ Foundation, expressions such as democracy education, culture of remembrance, digital tools or youth participation are not buzzwords; they are stimuli and aspirations. In the programs YOUNG PEOPLE remember and MEET UP! Youth for Partnership they are endowed with life, discussed and developed together! |
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Responsible:
Dr. Andrea Despot
Editorial:
Hanna Komornitzyk, Katrin Kowark, Maria Krell, Sophie Ziegler
Image credits:
iF Design Award, Foundation for the Welfare of Holocaust Victims, Rolf-Joseph-Preis, Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim, History from Below, Charles Games, Wheels e.V., ZukunftPlus e.V.
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