| Dear Readers |
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We are starting a new year in a very challenging time – with simultaneous crises, but also important milestones and possible turning points. All the more reason for us to look at joint opportunities for action, as well as the prospects in 2023.
It is not only the memory of Adolf Hitler "seizure of power" 90 years ago which is challenging: To this day the widely used term ensures that Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933, is all too frequently regarded as an inevitable, violent event. Instead, we need to understand the takeover of power by the National Socialists as the culmination of a decades-long social development – history is not predetermined and people can change the course of it: the National Socialist regime could have been averted as late as January 1933.
This means that we always have an opportunity to actively counteract social developments that endanger our democracy: With our project partners, we initiate contemporary education for a critical examination of National Socialism as well as its aftermath.
The best example of this are the many new projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice that begin with the new year.
In February, we will be launching a new round of calls for applications with the Education Agenda: What is the procedure? In this newsletter, we describe the path of a project idea through the calling for applications procedure in the Pearl Finder section.
To this end: Stay in touch, inform and engage with us.
Dr. Andrea Despot
CEO of the EVZ Foundation |
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Kick-off Conference in Kraków
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| The kick-off conference for the MemoryLanes project was held in Poland at the end of November: 70 young people from Serbia, Germany and Poland learned about the city's Jewish heritage in the context of European culture(s) of remembrance. In interactive workshops with four artists, they started to plan their own remembrance projects in their home countries, using artistic approaches and based on biographies. |
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| PROJECT FUNDING |
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Save the Date: New Calls for Applications from the Education Agenda in February
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| The Education Agenda NS-Injustice is going into the next round. In 2023, the EVZ Foundation will continue to look for projects which maintain awareness of National Socialist persecution in a historically aware and lively manner and work against current forms of discrimination. Documents for the two-stage application procedure (see Pearl Finder) will be available on the EVZ website from the end of February. |
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| To the Education Agenda website |
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| KREISAU INITIATIVE |
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A Seminar with 25 Disseminators from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine
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| The Education Agenda in action: From November 7 to 10, approximately 25 disseminators from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic as well as Ukraine met in Krzyżowa (Poland) to learn about and further develop the educational materials created in the "Uprooted" project and to exchange ideas. The Kreisau-Initiative's project is about children who were abducted to Germany by the National Socialist regime during World War II and forcibly "Germanized". |
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| More about Uprooted |
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| BRANDENBURG MEMORIALS FOUNDATION |
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| Pop-Up Exhibition on Paul Goesch's Work |
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| In order to experience a pop-up exhibition about the artist Paul Goesch, the memorial brought young people to the Stadtmuseum Brandenburg an der Havel (Brandenburg an der Havel City Museum) to engage with the painter who was a victim of the "euthanasia" killings: The students of the Brandenburg Medical School studied not just the work but also the life of the artist. The resulting exhibition can be visited by people with an interest in the next few weeks in the City Museum. |
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| More about Paul Goesch |
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| FROM THE OUTLINE TO THE FINAL PROJECT |
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How Do the Projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice Come into Being?
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The Education Agenda NS-Injustice is entering its second year: More than ten new projects in the funding program are expected to begin in January 2023, including a participatory music theater piece on the heritage of Jewish composers as well as a digital mapping project on former forced labor camps on present-day soccer and sports fields.
But how long does it actually take for project ideas to come to life – from a call for applications to the first outline and planning to actual implementation? A look behind the scenes: The large-scale projects funded under the Education Agenda go through a four-step procedure.
When the call for applications is published, the EVZ Foundation's staff advise interested sponsors about how their project proposals fit the funding guidelines. The relevant organizations can then submit project outlines within the specified period. |
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| In the production of the fourth part of the series "Fragile Verbindungen" [Fragile Connections], the ensemble of the Junges Schauspiel Frankfurt with the theater project "Unter uns. Unsichtbar?" [In Community] remembers the year 1944, when 50,000 people were forced to carry out forced labor in Frankfurt. |
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| HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK |
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| What Does Culture of Remembrance Look like Today? |
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| On November 9, an audio report on Hessischer Rundfunk examined current forms of culture of remembrance: among other things, the digital memory platform "Frankfurt and National Socialism" as well as a TikTok project against antisemitism are discussed as examples. |
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| FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU |
| „Unter uns. Unsichtbar?“ in Frankfurt |
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| The Frankfurter Rundschau reports on the premiere of the youth theater play "Unter uns. Unsichtbar?" [In Community] by the Junges Schauspiel Frankfurt and notes enthusiastically: "The evening shows how remembrance can be successful even with a time gap of nearly 80 years." |
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| KÖLNER STADT-ANZEIGER |
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New Website Turns the Fate of Holocaust Victims into a Virtual Experience
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| The article talks about the new interactive website of the NS-Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, which provides insights into Jewish life and suffering during the National Socialist era using the example of the Schönenberg family from Cologne. |
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Angela Jannelli, Curator at the Historical Museum Frankfurt
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A memory platform was created for the project "Frankfurt und der Nationalsozialismus". What can people interested in history from Frankfurt and beyond find online?
With the app, people interested in history can now navigate (even from the comfort of their sofa) to over 600 places which show just how much National Socialism was in evidence throughout the whole city. We have more than just the well-known places in the app, such as the Römer – i.e. our town hall –, the synagogues or the Frankfurt Central Station; we also have many places with an "invisible history" such as the numerous camps for forced laborers which were all over the city or the many offices of the NSDAP local groups, many of which were in private dwellings. The Shoah Memorial Frankfurt commemorates more than 12,000 people who were persecuted and murdered because they were Jews. They get a face and a story. It is continually revised to keep alive the memory of every individual. Incidentally, both projects are participatory, which means they can be expanded. Descendants and researchers may contribute information or photos about people or places; teachers can create individual tours in the app. |
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| JANUARY 24, BERLIN |
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| Klassenzimmer: Vanessa Vu in Conversation with Gianni Jovanovic |
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| In the January edition of the "Klassenzimmer" [Classroom] series of conversations, journalist Vanessa Vu talks to Gianni Jovanovic: one of the most prominent voices of Roma and Sinti in Germany. |
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| FEBRUARY 21, BERLIN |
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Press conference to present the MEMO Youth Study
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| How, what, and in which ways do young people remember National Socialism? How do they perceive discrimination now? The MEMO youth study 2023, carried out by Bielefeld University and funded by the EVZ Foundation, gives answers. |
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| EDITION 02/2023 |
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Our next edition will be published at the beginning of February!
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| The first newsletter edition on the EVZ Foundation will be published at the beginning of February. Among other things, it will be about a new part of our MEMO study, which we conducted for the sixth time together with the Bielefeld Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG). |
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Responsible:
Dr. Andrea Despot
Editorial:
Hanna Komornitzyk, Katrin Kowark, Sophie Ziegler
Image Credits:
Wojciech Wojtkielewicz, Gedenkstätten Brandenburg an der Havel, Amélie Losier / Raum11, Felix Grünschloss, HMF / Stefanie Kösling |
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