On this site, you will find all english books and studies, published or supported by the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future". Some are available as files for download. A complete list of all publications (in German) can be found on the German Site.

The first decade

To mark its 10th anniversary, the Foundation has published a brochure entitled "Foundation EVZ – the first decade". The brochure documents the milestones in the different phases of the Foundation’s history: its creation, the payments programmes for former forced labourers and other victims of National Socialism, and the current funding activities. It also contains brief statements from prominent persons in the fields of politics, industry and society on the impact of the Foundation’s work.  

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Rainer Huhle (ed.)

This volume elucidates the debates surrounding the historical development of human rights after 1945. The authors examine a number of specific human rights, including the prohibition of discrimination, freedom of opinion, the right to asylum and the prohibition of slavery and forced labor, to consider how different historical experiences and legal traditions shaped their formulation. Through the examples of Latin America and the former Soviet Union, they explore the connections between human rights movements and human rights education. Finally, they address current challenges in human rights education to elucidate the role of historical experience in education.

The publication of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" was published in March 2010 and edited by Rainer Huhle.
ISBN-13: 978-3-9810631-9-6. Berlin 2010, English, 196 pages.

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• Contents
• Selected chapters: Introduction, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4

Petra Follmar-Otto, Heike Rabe

The first study – "A human rights approach against human trafficking - International obligations and the status of implementation in Germany" – analyses how the prohibition of human trafficking and the resulting state obligations are anchored in human rights. The more recent specialised international agreements on human trafficking and law-making in the European Union are then presented. The emphasis is on the Council of Europe Convention, which professes to treat human trafficking in a human rights context. The study summarizes elements of a human rights approach against human trafficking and makes recommendations for further development of policies. ISBN: 978-3-937714-87-5. English, 96 pp. Berlin, September 2009.

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International youth projects 2008/2009

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Introducing quality assurance of education for democratic citizenship in schools

This publication presents an overview, from international perspectives, of the applicability and relevance of the Tool for Quality Assurance of Education for Democratic Citizenship in Schools, published jointly by UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the Centre for Educational Policies. Based on 10 country reports, it examines quality assurance requirements in the field of education for democratic citizenship (EDC) and compares the specific evaluation systems in those countries. It also provides a feasibility study on relevant conditions for implementing the Tool and aims to serve as a set of orientation guidelines for policy makers, a case study on implentation for researchers and a source book for education practitioners.
ISBN: 978-92-871-6522-0. English, 340 pp. Strasbourg, February 2009.

Ray Brandon, Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Anna Lipphardt (eds.)

Anyone who talks about Jewish life and the Jewish heritage cannot ignore Eastern Europe. The East European Jews are a paragon of frontier crossings, transnationalism, and the transfer of religion, tradition, language, and culture. From the 18th century onwards, most of the world’s Jewish population lived in Eastern Europe. Between 1870 and the First World War, some 3.5 million Jewish emigrants left their homelands, predominantly the Russian Empire and Habsburgruled Galicia. This emigration was the starting point for the founding of new Jewish communities in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Argentina, and Palestine. The majority of American Jews are descended from East European Jewry. In Israel, this is the case for more than half of the Jewish population. Some 80 per cent of Jews living in the world today have roots in Eastern Europe. In addition, several topographic maps are available (see below).
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1556-2. 328 pp., 11 maps, 25 illustrations. Berlin 2008.

The publication is available at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO) and can be ordered on their website. The book is also available as a PDF-file for download:

• English version (PDF-file; 9.5 MB)
• Map gallery

Nigdy Więcej, Opferperspektive e.V. (eds.)

The research project “Monitoring hate crimes and victim assistance in Poland and Germany” touches on various aspects of the foundation’s program: first of all, by having brought together a mixed group of political activists and academics from both countries involved in the struggle against contemporary manifestations of racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and right-wing extremism, allowing an intensive exchange of information and practical experiences; secondly, by focussing on the problem of hate crimes, which should be considered as being amongst the most severe and common forms of human rights violations in Europe today, attacking and threatening
not only the right to dignity and physical inviolability of individuals, but also the democratic and participatory capacities of many minority groups and communities affected; and finally, by trying to further future transnational cooperation between Polish and German civil society actors in order to improve monitoring systems of right-wing violence and support services for hate crime victims.

ISBN 978-3-00-027936-2. Berlin 2009; 210 pp.

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Final Report on compensations programs of the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation

Michael Jansen, Günter Saathoff (eds.)

The book contains the final report of the Foundation EVZ, giving a comprehensive history of the country's use of slave labor during World War II and the complex process by which reparations for survivors were negotiated.
The report is available in bookstores. ISBN-10: 0230612644; ISBN-13: 978-0230612648. Basingstoke / New York 2009, 230 pp.

Contents:

• Final Report on the Compensation Programs
• Portraits of Former Forced Labourers
• Statement by Federal President Johannes Rau
• The Law on the Creation of the Foundation
• Announcement of the German American Agreement concerning the Foundation