Our subjects

Ongoing projects and emergency aid, statements and alliances, and useful links on the current situation in Ukraine.

The victims of National Socialist persecution are now very elderly and many live in precarious conditions. The EVZ Foundation feels a special obligation towards them and funds projects that strengthen and support survivors medically, socially and in terms of their life in society.

Sinti and Roma have been living in Germany and Europe for more than 500 years - and they are persecuted and treated with hostility. About half a million Sinti and Roma were systematically murdered by the National Socialists. Today, structural and institutional racism determines the everyday lives of this minority.

Young people are the future bearers of the culture of remembrance! Since its establishment, the EVZ Foundation has supported a variety of multilateral funding programs, cooperation projects and operational projects with youth and young adults. The "Z" in the name of the foundation stands for "Zukunft" - "future". It represents the responsibility to support future generations in becoming diversity-sensitive, historically aware young people who stand up for diversity and democracy.

Alongside the Central and Eastern Europe region, Israel is a priority country for the EVZ Foundation's funding activities. Since the terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023, civil society in Israel has done a great deal to care for terror survivors and internally displaced persons, to support Shoah survivors and their families and to promote peaceful coexistence between Jewish and Arab people in Israel.

Approximately 26 million people were compelled to forced labor in the German Reich and in the occupied territories. They usually worked and died under inhumane conditions. Forced laborers were among the forgotten victims of National Socialism for a long time.

Hostility towards Jews has existed in Europe since ancient times - and today, more than 76 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, it is far from over: antisemitically motivated crimes are on the rise, Jews are insulted, and new conspiracy narratives are circulating. The EVZ Foundation is resolute in its opposition to this.

The culture of remembrance in Germany has been changing and developing all the time. Even though the time of National Socialism and crimes were pushed out of awareness and hidden for a long time, recognition of them and the responsibility that arises from them are now part of Germany's reason of state.

The EVZ Academy is a driving force and disseminator of the EVZ Foundation's strategic, programmatic and communicative approaches. In this capacity, it opens up spaces for networking, exchange and learning, both offline and online. It brings together stakeholders from politics, science and civil society to discuss the Foundation's subjects, further develop them and introduce them into social debates.