YOUNG PEOPLE remember
© Piotr Strojnowski
© Piotr Strojnowski
The program enables young people to enter into a critical examination of history. Transnational learning at historical sites of National Socialist persecution and extermination and also matters of European culture(s) of remembrance are at the center of the program. Funding is provided for memorial sites, educational institutions and NGOs in Germany, Europe and Israel.
© Oliver Mako
The reappraisal and communication of the atrocity of the Porajmos, the genocide against the European Sinti and Roma during the time of National Socialism, is an important concern for the EVZ Foundation. Sinti and Roma continue to be discriminated against and marginalized. The Foundation intends to counteract this through educational formats as well as the strengthening of self-organizations.
Young people and youth organizations in ten countries across Europe are working to bring about a reappraisal and countering antigypsyism.
The project builds on the digital "RomArchive" which is about arts and cultures of Sinti and Roma and in this way it develops new formats and methods of Holocaust education at historical sites and also online. This raises awareness about the Porajmos and strengthens the role of (Roma) youth organizations in commemorative practices and debates.
Project sponsor: Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma [Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma e. V.], Heidelberg
Duration of the project: 2020-2022
Funding amount: EUR 86,850
Funding countries: Croatia, Poland, Germany and other European countries
Website: https://2august.eu
© Patrick Weißig
The Foundation aims to get young people interested in local history and stories and to create inclusive places of learning. In this way, forgotten places that were part of Jewish life and National Socialist injustices in the border area between Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany will be made visible and preserved.
Young adults (18–28 years of age) from all over Europe are participating in the project, which is a cooperation between Hillersche Villa Zittau, the Jewish community of Liberec, the Jewish community in Dresden, Vereinigung junger Freiwilliger (Association of Young Volunteers), HATiKVA e.V., Besht Yeshiva Dresden, European Heritage Volunteers, and the city of Zittau.
The project covers a wide range of topics, including Jewish life, the Holocaust, National Socialist “euthanasia,” and Soviet prisoners of war. It is also setting up the “Jüdischer Friedhof in Zittau” (Jewish Cemetery of Zittau), which is a digital, inclusive place of learning, as well as cross-border partnerships in Central Eastern Europe. The trilateral project is being funded together with the Federal Foreign Office as part of the YOUNG PEOPLE remember project.
Duration of the project: 2020–2022
Funding amount: EUR 40,525
Funding countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Germany
Project website: www.mazewa.eu
The Foundation endeavors to bring about cross-border civil society dialog, especially in times of political tension.
Young educators as well as activists from Germany, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are jointly developing approaches and methods for educational and commemorative work. The focus is on how the different historical narratives in the participating countries are handled.
With innovative hybrid formats and new approaches to commemoration, the project supports the development of a transnational European culture of remembrance.
Project sponsor: Educat e.V. Berlin
Duration of the project: 2021–2022
Funding amount: 75,248 Euro
Funding countries: Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia
Project website: cultures-of-remembrance.tilda.ws
The game draws attention to a little-noticed chapter in National Socialist history in Central Europe and focuses especially on the issue of "resistance against National Socialism".
The game works with historical-archival materials and with a biographical-family-historical approach. It promotes a clear positioning against the mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization of minorities among the players.
Contemporary historical-political education requires international and interdisciplinary cooperation. The cooperation of educational institutions and NGOs with civic tech players is a prerequisite for shaping a digital culture of remembrance.
Project sponsor: Živá Pamĕť o.p.s., Prag
Duration of the project: 2021–2022
Funding amount: 58,708 Euro
Funding countries: Germany, Czech Republic
Project website: traintosachsenhausen.com
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