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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.
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With the project “Short videos, lasting memories,” five memorial sites, museums, and NGOs explored how short videos can be used as an educational tool in memorial site work.
The result is a workshop format in which young people create their own short videos, reflect on their visit to the memorial site, and engage in conversation about their experiences.
The new guide, “Short Videos, Lasting Memories: Short Videos as a Tool for Educational Remembrance Work,” offers an overview of the framework conditions for using short videos in the context of memorial work. It provides political educators with concepts, schedules, and materials to support youth in producing short videos.
The guide is available here in German, English, Hebrew, and Polish.
“Short videos, lasting memories” is a joint project of democ, the Max Mannheimer Study Center Dachau, the Mauthausen Memorial (Austria), the International Youth Meeting Center Oświęcim (Poland), and the Yad Mordechai Museum (Israel).
On 25 and 26 September 2025, the EVZ Foundation celebrated the fifth anniversary of the funding program YOUNG PEOPLE remember international together with around 80 participants from 16 countries in Berlin.
Here you will find impressions of the event ‘#5YPRI – Connecting Communities of Remembrance’, interviews with the panellists and the winning entries in the ‘Traces of Memory’ photo competition.
The funding line [re]create digital history focuses on digital formats that open up sites of remembrance and learning relating to National Socialist persecution and extermination for international civic education on a sustainable basis. With digital tools and applications, the projects further develop historical places for a low-threshold and location-independent teaching of National Socialist history in international youth exchange in a complementary way.
Project title: Max Mannheimer - Dimensions of a Lifetime
Organisation: Max Mannheimer Study Centre, Dachau
Cooperation partner: Fundacja na Rzecz MDSM Oswiecim
Project title: Queer Identities in Darkest Times
Organisation: Educat e.V., Berlin
Cooperation partners: Cornucopiaroot Associacao, Jugendnetzwerk LAMBDA Berlin-Brandenburg e.V., Hors Pistes
Project title: Hybrid Pathways // Shared Histories
Organisation: Europäische Akademie Berlin
Cooperation partners: Museum "Jews in Latvia", Association "Goral"
Project title: Short Videos, Lasting Memories
Organisation: democ e.V.
Cooperation partners: Fundacja na Rzecz MDSM Oswiecim, Mauthausen Memorial, Yad Mordechai Museum
Project title: Light of the Fireflies - Archeology of Memory
Organisation: Association Free Zone
Cooperation partners: spreeagenten e.V., Udruzenje za drustvenu istoriju-Euroclio (SRB), Centar za primenjenu istoriju (SRB)
The funding line [re]act finding memories focuses on bilateral and multilateral youth encounters for young people between 14 and 35 years of age, as well as professional exchanges for disseminators. We support projects that deal with National Socialist history in a multiperspective, transnational, and interdisciplinary way using contemporary methods as well as groundbreaking concepts.
Project title: Remembering Together
Organisation: Youth Agency for the Advocacy of Roma Culture ARCA
Cooperation partner: Society for Threatened Peoples
Project title: Connect Yourself with the Past – Bosnian-German History
Organisation: Arbeit und Leben Thüringen
Cooperation partner: Ambasada Kulture Amplituda (BA)
Project title: Remembrance in Dialogue - Fachaustausch zur internationalen Bildungsarbeit im Krieg
Organisation: Austausch e.V.
Cooperation partner: Insha Osvita (UA)
Project title: Closing the Gap of Remembrance: Podcasts about the Life and Persecution of FLINTA*-Persons during National Socialism
Organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V.
Cooperation partners: Gender Zed (UA), GFPS-Polska Stowarzyszenie Naukowo-Kulturalne w Europie Srodkowej i Wschodniej (PL)
Project title: Heritage and Hope - Youth Movements Resistance in Holocaust History
Organisation: Zionist Socialist Workers' Association Haschomer Hazair Austria
Cooperation partners: Hashomer Hatzair Germany, Magyarországi Somer Hacair Egyesület (HU)
Project title: Women in the Yugoslav resistance during the Second World War - A documentary film project
Organisation: Inwole e.V.
Cooperation partner: Federation of Feminist Organizations (Re)konekcija Novi Sad (SRB)
Project title: Deposits of Memory – Places of Memory in the urban space of the borderland
Organisation: Max Kopfstein Association (PL)
Cooperation partner: Minor-Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung gGmbH
Project title: Resistance Travels – A Real Life Adventure Game in Greek-German Remembrance
Organisation: Spielraum TPZ. Theaterpädagogisches Zentrum für Braunschweig und die Region e.V.
Cooperation partner: Artspace fabrica, Multiactive Art Group, Fabrica Athens
Project title: Following Traces – Dutch and German trainees examine the history of National Socialism in order to shape a shared European future
Organisation: Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk e.V. (IBB)
Cooperation partner: Karl-Schiller-Berufskolleg (D), Deltion College (NL)
Project title: Blogging about the Invisible: Rom:nja and Sinti:ze in the Shadow of History
Organisation: Formula of Humanity (LT)
Cooperation partners: Bildungswerk für Erinnerungsarbeit und Frieden, Leonard Stöcklein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
The EVZ Foundation has set up the [re]shape places of memory funding line to specifically address memorial sites in Central Eastern and Southeast Europe and the Baltic region as authentic (learning) spaces of National Socialist history and places for encounters and understanding. With this funding, the Foundation aims to open up these areas more effectively for international youth education and enhance their transnational significance in the context of European cultures of remembrance.
Project title: Spaces of the Holocaust - Majdanek-Belzec-Sobibór
Organisation: Museum Majdanek (Panstwowe Muzeum na Majdanku)
Cooperation partners: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork
Project title: Immersive learning at the Žanis Lipke Memorial
Organisation: Žanis Lipke Memorial
Cooperation partner: Bergen-Belsen Memorial
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