25 years EVZ Foundation! We offer a first preview of the program for the anniversary year 2025/2026. Also: the 2024 activity report, current calls for proposals, a new digital archive, an interview about Jewish life in Łódź, the Civic Space Report 2025, and insights into projects from the YOUNG PEOPLE remember committed funding line.
© Jiří Lubojacký
On August 2, Sinti and Roma communities in Auschwitz and at numerous locations across Ukraine commemorate the persecution and murder of around 500,000 Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era. Today, Roma in Ukraine are once again fighting for survival – also as soldiers on the front lines. Eleven additional self-organizations have received funding.
© Viktor Chovka
In this interview, Dr. Adam Sitarek discusses the Mapping Jewish Łódź project, including perspectives on Jewish life in Łódź, students' engagement with the city's history, the significance of urban space for educational work, and the impact of political developments in Poland on civil society engagement.
© Maciej Andrzejewski
Journalist turned activist, Shir Nosatzki co-founded "Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?", a grassroots initiative promoting Jewish-Arab partnership in Israel. In this interview, Shir Nosatzki speaks about the rapid establishment of a joint relief center after the Hamas terror attack on 7 October, and the growing challenges Israeli civil society…
Dr. Tobias Markowitsch reports on the work of the education agenda project “Denunciation-Repression-Persecution”: How are the pupils involved in the preparation of Nazi special court files that were tried before the former Mannheim Special Court during the Nazi era?
Dr. Siri Hummel, Director of the Maecenata Institute, talks in our interview about the situation of European civil societies and ways to support democratic structures.
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