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| EDITION 10/2023 |
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Dear Readers,
On October 9, 2019, a heavily armed right-wing extremist attempted to break into a synagogue in Halle where worshippers were celebrating Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement. In the end, it must have been a door made of oak that prevented the perpetrator from entering and carrying out a massacre. Instead, he threw explosives at the Jewish cemetery and killed a passer-by as well as the customer of a kebab snack bar.
The threat of antisemitic terror and violence is a bitter everyday reality in Germany - in schools, kindergartens, synagogues and on the street. How can antisemitism be countered, and how can we confront it on the structural level? Join Dr. Ronen Steinke, Dr. Felix Klein, Sarah Friedek, and Dr. Winfrid Wenzel on November 20, 2023, as part of our Education in Motion event series to discuss how the police and the judiciary, the public as well as those affected deal with antisemitism and what they do to counter it.
However, the fight against antisemitic attitudes can't be the responsibility of state institutions alone. We all need to take responsibility! With its new funding program, the EVZ Foundation aims to establish contact people for the prevention of antisemitism in institutions – and thus to set up permanent structures to counter antisemitism for society as a whole.
In this issue you can read how we are giving a forum to people or places of remembrance that have been attacked by right-wingers in the new 'No Room for Hatred' section. You can also find out why school is an exhausting place for many Sinti and Roma and how we can help abducted Ukrainian children.
Stay or become engaged with us!
Dr. Andrea Despot
CEO of the EVZ Foundation
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EVENT
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Nothing learned from history? Dealing with antisemitism in the police and judiciary
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For Jews in Germany, antisemitism is by no means thing of the past, but still a dangerous part of everyday life. The police and judiciary are not always able to avert and successfully prosecute antisemitic threats and acts of violence. In addition, antisemitic statements can unfortunately be found again and again in chat messages from police groups, and antisemitic motives are not always recognised in judicial practice and taken into account as such in the administration of justice. This suggests that trivialisation of antisemitism or insufficient knowledge of current manifestations also pose a challenge within institutions. We will therefore discuss the problem, its causes and practical solutions with Dr. Ronen Steinke, Dr. Felix Klein, Sarah Friedek and Dr. Winfrid Wenzel! The expert discussion will take place on Monday, 20 November, 6.30 p.m., as part of Education in Motion, a series of events organised by the Education Agenda NS-Injustice. The Topography of Terror Foundation is the cooperation partner.
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EDUCATION AGENDA NS-INJUSTICE
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The Magazine of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice
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Because of their age, survivors of National Socialist persecution are less and less able to give a report about National Socialist terror and persecution on site. The lines between fiction and historical fact are blurred – by new media forms as well as targeted disinformation. How can we engage in a critical examination of National Socialist injustice and carry out historical-political educational work successfully in times of digital change? In the first edition of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice magazine, we report on new ways of learning and innovative forms of conveyance. Take a look, amongst other things, at reports about forgotten victims and memories, gaps in the culture of remembrance and about how images from the Holocaust can be shown ethically and digital history projects can be created.
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#WATCHOUTHSTRY
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Photo Competition for the Annual Theme #WatchOutHstry
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Unknown Stories of NS Persecution: In the culture of remembrance relating to National Socialist crimes, there are still many blank spots as well as suppressed and forgotten stories. Help bring these gaps into focus! We need your help for the annual theme photo competition #WatchOutHstry: We are looking for motifs and snapshots that illuminate little-known places or stories about National Socialist injustice. Whether it's a forgotten memorial site, a photo of an encounter with survivors of the National Socialist occupation or a snapshot from a project funded by the EVZ Foundation – we're keen to discover your perspective on the topic! |
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LOCAL.HISTORY
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Save the Date: Call for Applications in the "local.history" Funding Program
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Look out: The next call for applications of the funding program "local.history" is scheduled for mid-October! With the funding program, the EVZ Foundation supports locally and regionally active history initiatives from Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on projects that remind and educate and that deal with local history, reappraisal and remembrance of National Socialist terror as well as incorporating topics of current relevance. The aim is to make history tangible in the here and now by local reference and to involve the local people in the process.
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FUNDING PROGRAM
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Building Structures for Combating Antisemitism
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Join us in building structures to counter antisemitism! In order to combat antisemitism effectively in society as a whole, the EVZ Foundation's funding program aims to establish contact persons for antisemitism prevention in institutions as well as accompanying projects and activities. The contact persons are provided with resources and skills and can engage in networking. The idea: To permanently consolidate structures that take action within their organization in the case of antisemitic incidents and discrimination, to support those affected and initiate projects and activities such as training and continuing education measures for members or employees.
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LGBTIQ SELF-ORGANIZATIONS
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Commitment Despite Hostility and Violence
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Since the end of 2022, ILGA-Europe and the EVZ Foundation jointly support numerous LGBTIQ self-organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. The activists' commitment to human rights is often impeded by hostility and hate crimes. The Ukrainian organizations Gender Stream, Sphere, Insight and Fulcrum UA show how flexible funding can adapt engagement to war and post-war situations and strengthen the Ukrainian LGBTIQ movement in a sustainable way. Projects in Poland have also been supported since September: Stowarzyszenie Tęczówka and transycja.pl are aimed at particularly marginalized groups such as queer women* and trans people. What is the situation for queer minorities in other European countries? What developments are of concern?
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Read facts about it now in the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map
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PUBLICATION
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Unequal participation: Extended version of the RomnoKher study published
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Education is the key to equal participation in all the areas of society. This is why it is so unfortunate that structural discrimination against Sinti and Roma in Germany has been particularly evident for decades in the area of education. This is the diagnosis of RomnoKher's study "On the situation of Sinti and Roma in Germany", which has been funded by the EVZ Foundation since 2011. Long-term effects of National Socialist persecution and experiences of discrimination today are rendered visible by the research. It also identifies urgent needs in education and training in Germany. A second, expanded and revised edition of the 2021 study has now been published. Look at new analysis from experts. Find out why school is still a place that requires a lot of strength for many Sinti and Rom today.
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STREITRAUM
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Capacity for an Alliance Between the Critique of Antisemitism and of Racism
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How can the debate about antisemitism and anti-Black racism be moved forward by dialogue? How can safer spaces for exchange be created for Jewish and Black communities? The alliance project "StreitRaum" funded by the EVZ Foundation was launched in January 2021 by the Competence Center for Prevention and Empowerment of the ZWST (Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany)) as well as Each One Teach One e.V. (EOTO) in cooperation with the Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Studienwerk (ELES).
A lot has happened since then: The project has succeeded in initiating a deeper discussion between the communities! The alliance partners launched a new podcast to make the alliance capacity, speech and discourse culture gained from the exchange more audible to the public. Hear about entanglements and tensions between the Black and Jewish communities in a total of five podcast episodes. There will be discussions and arguments around the relationship between history and remembrance, educational work, the labor movement or feminism from both Black and Jewish perspectives. Although "StreitRaum" is a place where people grapple together over content, positioning and issues, mutual solidarity never loses focus.
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This is Oleksandr – known as Sashko. In a video, the 12-year-old talks about his experiences after the expansion of the Russian war. Sashko is one of numerous children and young people who tell their stories on the Ukrainian online platform "Children of War". He talks about days of bombardment by the Russian army, siege, occupation as well as the absence of electricity and water. He describes a severe eye injury he suffered during the Russian shelling of his hometown of Mariupol. And he talks about how he was captured by Russian authorities together with his mother Snizhana in March 2022. They separated Sashko from his mother in a so-called filtration camp – without giving him the opportunity to even say goodbye to her. He was subsequently taken on a detour to an orphanage, where he was to await adoption by a Russian foster family.
Sashko can talk about his deportation today only because his grandmother Lyudmyla together with state and non-state organizations were able to bring him back to the territory under Ukrainian control. However, thousands of Ukrainian children are still in Russian custody, abducted, separated from their parents and thus deprived of a present and a future appropriate for children.
In the latest episode of EVZ Conversations! "Uprooted –Children in War: Strengthen Victims, Punish Perpetrators" Marieluise Beck (expert of Eastern Europe), Anna Lenchovska (Executive Director, Kyiv Educational Center "Tolerspace") and Dr. Elīna Šteinerte (human rights lawyer) talked to Dr. Andrea Despot, CEO of the EVZ Foundation. The focus was on how European civil societies can get involved with affected children and bring perpetrators to justice.
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Watch EVZ Conversations! now 
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Dr. Elīna Šteinerte, Latvian human rights lawyer, a member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, former Chair Rapporteur and member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
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Ms. Šteinerte, in April 2023 you were appointed independent expert of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism on the issue of Forcible Transfer and/or Deportation of Ukrainian Children to the Russian Federation. You were mandated to document crimes against humanity and observe violations of children's rights by the Russian authorities. What kind of general observations have you been able to make?
The Mission established that, since 24 February 2022 and even prior, a large number of Ukrainian children have been displaced from the territory of Ukraine to the temporarily occupied territories and to the territory of the Russian Federation. While the exact numbers remain uncertain, the fact of a large-scale displacement of Ukrainian children is not disputed by either Ukraine and/or Russia. The Mission report primary focus was on orphans and on unaccompanied children, since those constitute the most vulnerable groups among the displaced children. The Mission established three most commonly indicated grounds for the organized displacement of these children as: (1) the evacuation for security reasons, (2) the transfer for the purpose of adoption or foster care, and (3) temporary stays in so-called recreation camps. It was established that through these practices not only has the Russian Federation manifestly violated and continues to violate the best interests of these children repeatedly, but it has also denied these children’s right to, inter alia, identity, family and their right to unite with their family. Russia has also violated and continues to violate its obligations under the Geneva Conventions and this practice of forcible transfers may amount to a crime against humanity of “deportation or forcible transfer of population”.
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Read the whole interview now
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There are just too many: Approximately 600 antigypsy incidents were documented by the reporting and information unit for antigypsyism (MIA – Melde- und Informationsstelle Antiziganismus) for 2022; 2,480 antisemitic incidents by the Research and Information Centers on Antisemitism (RIAS – Recherche- und Informationsstellen Antisemitismus). Behind every "incident" is a person, a place, a story, a life that may be different in the meantime. In the new "No place for hate" section, we want to give a forum – not for perpetrators but for people or places that have been attacked. We will start with the memorial, book and audio box not far from the Berlin memorial Gleis 17, which was completely destroyed in an antisemitic arson attack in the summer. More than 300 books were burned – many of them presented a thematic critical evaluation of the horrific deportations of Jews.
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ZDFtivi
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logo! from Sunday, September 3, 2023 [02:30-07:33]
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ZDF's children's and youth program reports in the news format logo! about the project "In Echt? - Virtuelle Begegnung mit NS-Zeitzeugen" funded by the EVZ Foundation as part of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice. The project tests which potentials virtual reality can offer to convey history when there are no more historical eyewitnesses from the National Socialist era. Here, visitors to the exhibitions can digitally experience the personal biographies of survivors of National Socialist persecution in virtual reality and look at their stories – such as that of the historical eyewitness Ruth Winkelmann, who shares her thoughts on "In Echt?" in the report.
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ZEIT ONLINE
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"These are threats of violence, not mere provocations."
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In an interview, historian Franka Maubach places the so-called leaflet affair surrounding Bavaria's Deputy Minister President, Hubert Aiwanger, in the context of the social debates in the 1980s. It becomes clear how much antisemitic violence, right-wing terror and attacks on the German culture of remembrance of National Socialism shaped the 1980s and what continues to resonate from that time into today.
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SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
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Despondency does not count
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Increasing right-wing extremism jeopardizes democracy and cohesion in our country. In a guest commentary for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, historian Norbert Frei clarifies: "The right-wing radicals are learning their lessons from the Weimar Republic. Democrats should do the same. And we shouldn't skimp on political education."
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NOVEMBER 7, DIGITAL
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Communicators meeting with Mirko Drotschmann
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Vivid culture of remembrance about National Socialist injustice - could films be an approach? What ethical issues should guide video production? We will be discussing these and more questions with Mirko Drotschmann (MrWissen2Go) at the communicators meeting. This networking format of the EVZ Foundation is aimed at communicators from memorial sites, foundations and organizations.
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NOVEMBER 8, BERLIN
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Eva Umlauf: Her testimony
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Ludwig-Maximilians University and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) have been able to preserve the memories of historical eyewitnesses with the help of the virtual reality project "Lernen mit digitalen Zeugnissen" (LediZ) funded by the EVZ Foundation. Using the volumetric video technique, the memories of Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf have now been preserved for future generations. Would you like to learn more about Eva Umlauf's story?
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Join us now for the launch of the virtual reality experience
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NOVEMBER24./25., HANOVER
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Network meeting on historical-political educational work in sports
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What does historical-political educational work in sports mean? The Bergen-Belsen Memorial networking meeting brings together representatives of sports clubs and associations as well as memorials and educational sites to talk about these and other issues. During the visit to the Bergen-Belsen Memorial, the educational offer for groups interested in sports will be presented.
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| NEWSLETTER 11/2023 |
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| Our next edition will be published at the beginning of November! |
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| At the beginning of November, you can once again expect the newsletter on the Education Agenda NS-Injustice: Among other things, we report on the networking meeting of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice and the new edition of Education in Motion. Be curious! |
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| All editions at a glance |
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Dr. Andrea Despot
Editorial:
Hanna Komornitzyk, Katrin Kowark, Thomas Stein, Nadine Klück, Charlotte Detig
Image Credits:
Peter von Felbert, Polizei Berlin, BMI, Stefanie Kösling, Krista und Reinis Dzudzilo, ILGA-Europe, ZWST, Stefanie Loos, Stefanie Loos. |
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