© Katarzyna Mazur
The EVZ Foundation has been supporting three local alliances for survivors of NS persecution in Berlin, Heidelberg and Nuremberg as a pilot project since the beginning of 2022. The alliances are a useful addition to the existing support for survivors and their relatives. Other local organizations and groups are involved in the commitment to survivors, e.g. in the form of qualifications for caregivers, volunteers and relatives or history students who record the life stories of survivors.
Care for elderly survivors of National Socialism requires exceptional awareness. The aim of the Local Alliances for Survivors of National Socialist Persecution in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Nuremberg is to improve the networking of helpers, place the commitment to survivors on a wider social level, and enhance their support in the long term.
Self-organizations from the Jewish, Sinti and Roma communities as well as organizations such as the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO), higher education institutions, counselling centers and municipal players are involved in all alliances. High-profile measures increase the public visibility of the concerns of survivors of National Socialism. The Alliance gives victim groups that have had little contact with each other so far a space for encounters and experiences.
Survivors of National Socialist persecution and their helpers still require and deserve our commitment. The alliances will augment the existing support and embed this support in society. The project adopts a sustainable approach by aiming to create regular structures. The EVZ Foundation will support a consolidation phase of the alliances in 2024 to strengthen these structures.
Project sponsors: Club Dialog e.V., Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, AWO Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Nürnberg e.V. (Nuremberg Workers' Welfare Association)
Funding period: 2022 to 2023
Funding amount: 262,974 Euro
Funding country: Germany
