In our column "Three Questions for ..." project partners report what they think selected funding approaches achieve.
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.
© Lisa Vlasenko
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".
© Thomas Müller
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?
© Romanity e.V.
A. S., Director of the BYSOL Foundation, describes in our interview the situation of Belarusian civil society before and after the so-called presidential elections in January 2025.
A. R., head of the Belarusian NGO 'Journalists for Tolerance' (J4T), talks in our interview about state repression against the LGBTIQ community.
The participants talk about their performance in a diverse ensemble, about their personal connection to contemporary witnesses and about the urgency of dealing with the history of National Socialism.
© Felix Grünschloss
Angelik Ustymenko (they/them) was a recipient of the Vidnova Fellowship we were funding. The project was realized by Commit by MitOst.
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