"In 2015, the European Parliament declared August 2 to be the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma. This came seven decades after the genocide and after years of struggle by our self-organizations for political recognition of racial persecution. Therefore, this official day not only commemorates the painful losses caused by the genocide, but also signifies official recognition of the survivors whose history was denied for decades."
Isidora Randjelović, RomaniPhen e.V.
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| Dear Readers, |
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On August 2 we commemorate the Sinti and Roma who were persecuted and murdered by the National Socialist terror regime – an important sign of remembrance that the European Parliament set as recently as 2015. The significance of this day for descendants and communities is shown not only by the quotation from Isidora Randjelović who, within the framework of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice, organized the project "Memories of Samudaripen in the musical heritage of Roma" of the self-organization RomaniPhen e.V. Based on three Roma songs from camps in occupied territories, the project traces life worlds and contexts of origin and reinterprets them with young people.
The archive project "The Forgotten Memory" of the Heidelberg Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma also reveals gaps in our culture of remembrance: The long suppressed and denied genocide against Sinti and Roma, their history of persecution and their cultural identity are documented centrally in a collection for the first time – by means of 1,000 exhibits such as photographs, documents as well as personal objects. Both projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice clearly show the special role self-organizations play in this context: It is thanks to their commitment that even stories that have barely been told so far are given a definite place in our culture of remembrance.
In this connection: Stay in touch, with our project partners and us, inform and engage with us.
Dr. Andrea Despot
Chief Executive Officer of the EVZ Foundation |
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First Workshop at Mercedes-Benz in Bremen |
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| The time had finally come: In mid-May, the pilot scheme for the blended learning offering "Informed, courageous, committed!" started at Mercedes-Benz in Bremen. A group of twelve apprentices from the mechatronics occupational group addressed the subject of antisemitism over the course of four weeks as part of the EVZ Foundation's project. What does this term even mean? How can antisemitic statements and images be identified? And what can each individual do against antisemitism? The participants developed ideas for their own engagement in digital self-learning phases on the EVZ Academy learning platform and in four workshops. The first meeting was about (their own) experiences of discrimination and different manifestations of antisemitism in society. |
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| STIFTUNG DIGITALE SPIELEKULTUR |
Let's Remember! Culture of Remembrance with Games on Site |
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| Do you work in an organization that wants to develop innovative formats and work with games? In dialog with memorial sites and museums, the Foundation for Digital Games Culture is testing site-specific formats for establishing a culture of remembrance of National Socialist injustice supported by games. The Foundation for Digital Games Culture is still looking for partners for this project! |
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| BIGIDI E.V |
Learn, Listen, Experience: Two App Formats Go Online! |
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| How can history be experienced in a way that is easily accessible? How did women-loving women experience persecution by the National Socialist state and how are the nameless victims remembered today? The Bidigi association addresses these questions with two formats that make knowledge about National Socialist injustice and the culture of remembrance digitally accessible: Whilst the interactive learning app "Disco – Learning for All" highlights forms of resistance and emancipation processes of marginalized groups for young people, the sound app #insideHISTORY takes users on listening walks through Berlin, Cologne, Munich and Leipzig. Both apps are available for Android and Apple at their respective stores. |
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| Wolfenbüttel PRISION MEMORIAL |
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Project Week at the Wolfenbüttel Prison Memorial |
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| The research project "Eternal Convicts?!" of the Wolfenbüttel Prison Memorial brings together students from Germany and Belgium: Together, they address the subject of compensation for convicts who were victims of National Socialist injustice. As part of a project week, they spent time on site looking at compensation records relating to German prisoners and relatives of Belgian resistance fighters who were executed in the Wolfenbüttel prison during the National Socialist era. The international and interdisciplinary exchange opened up new perspectives and insights: The biographical approach impressively conveys the different social perceptions of victims of the National Socialist judicial system and the role of compensation after 1945 in both countries. |
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SCHAUBÜHNE BERLIN |
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A Review of the Symposium "Memory Work in Youth Education" |
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How can antisemitism-sensitive youth education succeed in everyday school life, which is often characterized by scarce (time) resources? What support do teachers need to address antisemitism, racism or queer hostility? And why does media literacy play a crucial role here? School and specialist educators looked at these and other questions during the symposium at the end of June at Schaubühne which was funded as part of the youth theater project "stolpern" in the context of Education Agenda NS-Injustice.
To kick off the event, teachers shared their experiences of discrimination in the classroom and schoolyard in a "World Café." They then jointly identified areas for learning and fields of activity. In two parallel workshops, the focus was then on topic-specific work: Under the title "Hate in the Class Chat" participants worked together with Charlotte Lohmann and Eva Schwarz from the Amadeu Antonio Foundation's "FIREWALL" project to develop possible ways to combat digital forms of hate. They asked themselves the specific question: What are the risks of class chats on messenger services such as WhatsApp? In the workshop led by the Jewish Museum Berlin, the goal was to respond to concrete and potentially antisemitic scenarios in the classroom. What action does a particular case require – brief classification, a discussion, or perhaps more extensive instructional measures?
The event concluded with a panel discussion with Dr. Verena Haug (Anne Frank Zentrum Berlin), Fernando da Ponte (Hermann Hesse Gymnasium Kreuzberg) and Leonore Martin (EVZ Foundation). Moderated by Mai-An Nguyen, head of theater education at Schaubühne, participants reflected on the symposium, discuss results and put questions to the panel. Summary: An stimulating event that all participants – and many other people – used for networking and for a lively exchange. |
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| An impressive encounter: In mid-May, the first conference for the transnational project "Who is Walter?" took place in Berlin. Participants from Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Croatia and Germany came together for three days of panel discussions, new publications and a joint visit to the German Resistance Memorial Center. The conference kicked off and concluded with two events that were open to the public – a lecture as well as a screening of the Yugoslav film "Walter defends Sarajevo" on May 14 and a concluding round table on May 16 on the key question for the project: Who is actually interested in the resistance today? |
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Greece: Unpunished German War Crime |
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| ARD's Europamagazin reports on a research team from the Osnabrück University which is investigating the fate of former Jewish forced laborers in the Greek town of Karya. In the framework of the project "Deadly forced labor in Karya. German Occupation and the Holocaust in Greece" of the Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center, information will be presented about the location that is still unknown to most people – including 3D. In the report, Solon Karasso, the son of a former forced laborer, also gets a chance to speak. |
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| THEATER DER ZEIT |
Dem Vergangenen nahekommen |
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| In an interview for the magazine Theater der Zeit, Mai-An Nguyen and Martín Valdés-Stauber talk about their productions "stolpern" by Schaubühne Berlin and Piccolo Theater Cottbus and "Time Busters" of the Munich Kammerspiele. Based on their personal approaches to theater, they ask right on trend: "Is theater suitable as a medium of remembrance?" or "How does our culture of remembrance change when we acknowledge the radical diversity of our society?" |
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| VISUAL HISTORY |
Photographic Transmission of Deportations from the Territory of the Reich |
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| In a blog post for Visual History – an online reference work for historical image research – Svea Hammerle and Sandra Starke talk about the digital image atlas created as part of the #LastSeen project. This is "an attractive tool for educational and extracurricular work" which brings together "a large pool of new but also familiar image material" in one place. |
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| DIE WELT |
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"This was a taboo, no one was allowed to know" |
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| Along the perspective of Gerd A. Meyer, son of the Soviet prisoner of war Anatolij Michailowitsch Pokrowskij, who was imprisoned at the Sandbostel camp, Dieter Sell engages in the project "trotzdem da!" for DIE WELT. The exhibition project of the Sandbostel Camp Memorial works through the stories of those children who came from forbidden relationships between Germans and so-called "foreign workers": "It was especially Polish and Soviet prisoners of war and forced laborers who were regarded by the racial ideology of Hitler's regime as 'inferior' people who were then denied elementary rights. But despite rigid punitive measures, the forbidden contact existed. Though exact figures are not available." |
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Prof. Dr. Benjamin Lahusen, Head of the project "Law without Law" at the European University Viadrina
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Mr. Lahusen, why is the restitution of art in general, but especially in the case of property stolen by the National Socialists, so difficult?
You can't tell who a work of art once belonged to just by looking at it, or how it came to be traded, at what price and with what reasons it has changed owners. All this poses great difficulties for provenance research. Uncertainties frequently remain even after years of investigation. This open situation exists in the face of significant non-material and in many cases material values. It is therefore important to bundle and systematize the existing knowledge about cases of restitution. But that is precisely what's not happening, probably because the institutions concerned fear that restitution could set a precedent and induce covetousness. |
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AUGUST 18 TO SEPTEMBER 15, ISRAEL & GERMANY |
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Post-Holocaust Remedies: Summer School 2023 |
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| After the horrors of the Holocaust, what lessons can be learned from the compensation measures taken up till now? A summer school will take place as part of the Post-Holocaust Remedies project: Twenty five students from Colombia, Israel and Germany have been invited to spend two weeks each at Reichman University in Herzliya in Israel and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen to study the legal reappraisal of National Socialist crimes. |
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AUGUST 29 TO SEPTEMBER 17, FEDERAL STATE OF BRANDENBURG |
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Mobile Exhibition on Tour: "In Echt?" |
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| The project "For Real? - Virtual Encounter with historical eyewitnesses" reflects on the potential but also the possible limits of virtual reality in the context of the few remaining historical eyewitnesses. In late summer and fall, the mobile exhibition will now make stops at four locations in Brandenburg: Potsdam, Wittstock/Dosse, Kyritz and Pritzwalk. |
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SEPTEMBER 4 TO 7, POTSDAM |
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Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF: Summer School |
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| How do we tell history? How do audiovisual media shape the memory of the Holocaust? The Summer School at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF shows how film and immersive media function as digital access to the past. Registration is still possible up to July 21, 2023. |
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EDITION 08/2023 |
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Our next edition will be published at the beginning of August! |
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| The August edition of our newsletter will once again be all about current projects and funding programs of the EVZ Foundation. We take a special look at a joint project with the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO). Stay tuned! |
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Responsible:
Dr. Andrea Despot
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Charlotte Detig, Hanna Komornitzyk, Katrin Kowark, Sophie Ziegler
Image Credits:
Stiftung EVZ, Gedenkstätte in der JVA Wolfenbüttel, Stiftung EVZ, Amélie Losier, Christian Vagt |
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