Interviews

Three Questions for....

Three Questions for

In our column "Three Questions for ..." project partners report what they think selected funding approaches achieve.

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  1. Three Questions for... Christian Pfeil, survivor of the genocide against the Sinti and Roma

    Christian Pfeil and his closest relatives survived the Lublin ghetto and Nazi forced labor. In this interview, he talks about how important it is to educate younger generations about his family's history and the genocide of the Sinti and Roma.

  2. Three Questions for... Andrii Knyha on Kherson as a “third place” in Ukraine

    With his team, Andrii Knyha is bringing new life to Kherson’s city theater as a “third place” – an open space for dialogue, learning, and community. Workshops, culinary experiences, and mental health programs have turned it into a place of strength and an anchor for local people, supported through the EVZ Foundation’s funding program YeMistechko.

  3. Three Questions for... Natalie Baruch, Network Israel Fellow

    Natalie Baruch is a Network Israel Fellow involved with ACHOTI, a feminist organization. She developed workshops on the perspectives of Mizrahi Jewish women in Israel and Muslim women in Germany. She tells us about the challenges after October 7 and how important it is to reimagine solidarity across borders.

  4. Three Questions for... Dr. Veronika Heilmannseder, project leader of Butter, Vieh, Vernichtung

    The project has already held numerous workshops and events that appeal to different age groups and provide historical and personal insights into Nazi past in the Allgäu region. We asked Dr. Veronika Heilmannseder, among other things, to what extent creative approaches have helped to raise young people in particular to local Nazi history.

  5. Three Questions for... Dr. Adam Sitarek from the project "Mapping Jewish Łódź"

    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.

  6. Three Questions for... Shir Nosatzki, Co-Founder and Director of "Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?"

    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…

  7. Three questions for... Dr. Tobias Markowitsch, Schülerakademie Karlsruhe

    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?

  8. Three questions for... Dr. Siri Hummel

    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.

    [Translate to Englisch:] Porträtfoto Dr. Siri Hummel

  9. Three questions for... Eric Wrasse

    Eric Wrasse, representative of the "Weltoffenes Thüringen" project, talks in our interview about the state of democratic civil society in Thuringia and explains why democracy is "not a value-free event".

    [Translate to Englisch:] Porträtfoto Eric Wrasse

  10. Three questions for... Radoslav Ganev, Romanity e.V.

    Radoslav Ganev reports on the work of the project “Unbroken - The Song of Survivors” on the history of the persecution and resistance of Sinti/Sintize and Roma/Romnja during and after National Socialism: How did the idea of an anime musical come about? And how do members of the Sinti and Roma community contribute to the project?

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