News from our projects

05.04.2023

Interview with Anna Lenchovska, executive director and Lyn Sidelnikov, intern at Kyiv Educational Center Tolerspace, which runs a TikTok campaign to educate about Antisemitism.

09.03.2023

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. We followed up on projects that have already been completed: We delved into the biographies of heroes, visited the Naliboki Forest in Belarus, and learned astonishing…

24.02.2023

The local.history funding program enables the EVZ Foundation to support local and regional history initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Where are the gaps in our cultures of remembrance and the forgotten places of Nationalist Socialist history? Sponsors from Poland report.

02.02.2023

In this interview, Evelyne Paradis, Executive Director of ILGA-Europe, talks about the situation of LGBTIQ self-organizations in Central and Eastern Europe and what changes are needed to improve the situation of LGBTIQ communities.

02.01.2023

How long does it actually take for project ideas of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice to come to life – from a call for applications to the first outline and planning to actual implementation? A look behind the scenes.

14.12.2022

The Education Agenda in action: From November 7 to 10, 25 disseminatorsmet in Krzyżowa to learn about the educational materials created in the "Uprooted" project. The Kreisau-Initiative's project is about children who were abducted to Germany by the National Socialist regime during World War II and forcibly "Germanized".

10.12.2022

The kick-off conference for the MemoryLanes project was held in Poland at the end of November: 70 young people from Serbia, Germany and Poland learned about the city's Jewish heritage in the context of European culture(s) of remembrance. In interactive workshops, they planned their own remembrance projects in their home countries.

08.12.2022

In order to experience a pop-up exhibition about the artist Paul Goesch, the memorial brought young people to the Stadtmuseum Brandenburg an der Havel (Brandenburg an der Havel City Museum) to engage with the painter who was a victim of the "euthanasia" killings: The students of the Brandenburg Medical School studied not just the work but also the…

01.12.2022

In the interview, Angela Jannelli - curator at the Frankfurt Historical Museum - talks about the memory platform that was created as part of the project " Frankfurt und der Nationalsozialismus" (Frankfurt and National Socialism) and how civil society groups can be supported in their memory work.

01.12.2022

In the production of the fourth part of the series "Fragile Verbindungen" [Fragile Connections], the ensemble of the Junges Schauspiel Frankfurt with the theater project "Unter uns. Unsichtbar?" [In Community] remembers the year 1944, when 50,000 people were forced to carry out forced labor in Frankfurt.