Publications

Germans' memories of World War II are centered on events and places in Western Europe. This is a result of MEMO - the Multidimensional Remembrance Monitor. The fifth study on German culture of remembrance shows that 58.5% of the 1,000 representative respondents have never visited a place of remembrance of World War II and its victims located outside of Germany intentionally. Those who visited a memorial site outside Germa-ny most often refer to France, and there to the warfare and the war graves in Normandy.

How, what and in what ways do young people in Germany remember National Socialism? How do they perceive discrimination and remembrance culture today? The MEMO Youth Study 2023, conducted by Bielefeld University and funded by the EVZ Foundation, extends the previous five MEMO surveys (2018-2022) by the focus group young adults. National Socialism and World War II are central reference points in Germany's culture of remembrance for adolescents and young adults. All results of the study as well as accompanying material are available here.

This document presents the first results of an online panel survey carried out by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University as part of the MEMO project, which is funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ). For the study, a total of 3,485 young people between the ages of 16 and 25, who were representatively selected, were surveyed online in late summer 2021 concerning German culture of remembrance and the history
of National Socialism. In terms of content, the study is linked to the previous MEMO representative surveys, but focuses specifically on adolescents and young adults as the central target group of historical-political educational work.

For more than two decades, the Foundation EVZ has supported projects for survivors of National Socialist persecution in many countries. The dossier "Responsibility and Care: The Foundation EVZ's Commitment to Survivors of Nazi Injustice" outlines the challenges of this work and presents the results to date. The very elderly need psychological, physical and social assistance in order to age stably and with dignity. In addition, the pandemic and the war against Ukraine required acute emergency aid, which the EVZ Foundation provided quickly and unbureaucratically.

The study examines the experiences and qualifications of Sinti:ze and Rom:nja in the German education system. The results show that the educational situation of Roma and Sinti has improved significantly in the school sector, but only slightly in the field of training. The differences with the total population remain significant. The survey results also show the long-term effects of National Socialist persecution.

The final report, published in April 2018, presents the findings and conclusions of an extensive research project conducted in 2016/2017 in five European countries - Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It examined whether immigration from the Middle East and North Africa has an impact on anti-Semitic attitudes and behaviors in Western Europe. The report summarizes the findings of the five national reports, which provide a comprehensive overview per country of existing quantitative and qualitative evidence on this topic since 2011.

The EVZ Foundation invited partners to develop secondary ideas and concepts for an international workshop in 2017 on “Video-taped interviews”. The team from _erinnern.at_ undertook to hold a workshop on the subject, to explore and to develop quality criteria for such interviews and afterwards to prepare a publication in our “Education with Testimonies” online series. This is the result.

The brochure contains interdisciplinary teaching material on the subject of Sinti and Roma. In addition to background information on history and the Sinti and Roma and a "disambiguation", task sheets on the topics of history, art, culture and social policy are provided as copy templates. The task sheets are deliberately designed in such a way that they can be used both interdisciplinary and in different age groups and school forms.

This publication describes the practical implementation of the Foundation EVZ's payment program for Nazi forced laborers and examines the various stages and steps necessary to carry out such a comprehensive program. The authors were directly involved in the implementation of the program and thus offer an "insider's" perspective of the implementation. By illustrating why certain decisions were made at each stage of the program and what the consequences were in each case, the authors aim to offer knowledge and inspiration for those involved in establishing or implementing compensation programs in other countries.

This publication reflects the interdisciplinary debates currently taking place on the various digital techniques of preserving eyewitness interviews. The focus is how the changes in media technology are affecting the various fields of work, which include storage/ archiving, education as well as the reception of the interviews.

These essays document the exchange that took place between education experts from Israel, the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany as part of the series Entdecken und Verstehen. Bildungsarbeit mit Zeugnissen von Opfern des Nationalsozialismus (“Discovering and Understanding: Educational Work with Testimonials from Victims of National Socialism”) that was initiated and organized by the Foundation EVZ in 2010 and 2011.

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.

In June 2007, the Foundation EVZ presented a final report on the disbursement programs. This report was presented to Federal President Horst Köhler and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel at a ceremony on June 12, 2007. An essay by historian Lutz Niethammer reflects on the subject of forced labor under National Socialism. Reports by victims from various countries provide insights into the fates of survivors.

The English version is out of stock, the German version can be ordered in bookstores or by email.

For more than two decades, the EVZ Foundation has been working to support survivors of the persecution of Sinti and Roma, against current discrimination and to empower this minority. The dossier on the subject of Antigypsyism outlines both the principles as well as the specific challenges faced within this work and introduces projects and their partners.