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ACTIVITY REPORT 2014 REMEMBRANCE RESPONSIBILITY FUTURE ACTIVITY REPORT 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 GREETING ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 THE FOUNDATION EVZ .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 This report contains Fields of Activity ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 QR codes that can be What Was Funded .................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 scanned using a smartphone. These codes PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION ........................................................................................................................................... 16 are linked to additional information and/or films. FIELD OF ACTIVITY 1: THE CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF HISTORY ............................................................ 21 German Premiere for the Concert Drama Defiant Requiem in Berlin ............................................................ 22 Travelling Exhibition “Forced Labour: The Germans, the Forced Labourers, and the War” ......... 24 New Funding Programme: Pilot Round Theatre Projects Using the Testimony of the Victims of National Socialism ........................................... 26 Remembering the Courage of the “Righteous”: Funding for Yad Vashem ................................................... 27 Conference Series: “Blickwinkel: Antisemitismus in der Migrationsgesellschaft” ............................ 28 Educational Work with Victim Testimony .......................................................................................................................... 30 Exhibition with Opening Reception: “Überleben durch Kunst” (Survival through Art) Watercolours by the Polish Former Forced Labourer Francis Znamirowski ............................................. 31 Forced Labour and Forgotten Victims: Remembering Nazi Injustice ............................................................ 32 Leo Baeck Programme ......................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Encounters with Eyewitnesses .................................................................................................................................................... 36 FIELD OF ACTIVITY 2: WORKING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ...................................................................................... 39 MEET UP! German-Ukrainian Youth Encounters .......................................................................................................... 40 Menschen Rechte Bilden .................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Stop Hate Crime! ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 44 Projects Against Anti-Semitism and Antiziganism ..................................................................................................... 46 goEast – Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films ........................................................................................ 48 Scholarships for Roma in Eastern Europe ............................................................................................................................ 50 Exhibition: “Der U-Boot-Bunker Valentin: Geschichte in Beton” ...................................................................... 51 Europeans for Peace .............................................................................................................................................................................. 52 Jugend debattiert international .................................................................................................................................................. 54 Transitional Justice: Reconciliation Means Being Sorry ........................................................................................... 56 FIELD OF ACTIVITY 3: COMMITMENT TO THE VICTIMS OF National SOCIALISM .................... 59 Portraits of Victims of National Socialism .......................................................................................................................... 60 Interview with Dr. Vladimir Ilyich Paniotto ........................................................................................................................64 Donations for the Victims of National Socialism ........................................................................................................... 66 Partnerships for the Victims of National Socialism ..................................................................................................... 68 International Travelling Exhibition “Like a Breath of Fresh Air” ....................................................................... 72 Young Volunteers in Generational Dialogue ...................................................................................................................... 76 PRESS AND PUBLIC relations, EVENTS .................................................................................................................. 79 Two Million Additional Euros to Assist Survivors ......................................................................................................... 80 Foundation EVZ Campaign “Ich lebe noch!” (I’m Still Alive) Kicks Off ........................................................ 82 Exhibition: Bückeburg under the Swastika, Bürgerfest, Day of German Unity, Hannover ........... 83 Events ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 84 PUBLICATIONS FUNDED BY THE FOUNDATION EVZ IN 2014 ........................................................................ 98 FACTS AND FIGURES ............................................................................................................................................................... 103 Financial Report ................................................................................................................................................................................... 104 Foundation EVZ Mourns Trustee Prof. Alexander P. Potschinok ..................................................................... 110 Foundation EVZ Mourns Former Trustee Valentin Yakovlevitch Gerasimov ....................................... 111 Board of Trustees, Foundation EVZ ........................................................................................................................................ 112 Board of Directors, Team ................................................................................................................................................................. 114 Committees and Juries ..................................................................................................................................................................... 116 Partners ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 120 ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION ................................................................................................................................................. 122 TABLE OF CONTENTS ▪ 5 INTRODUCTION The members of the Board of Directors, Dr. Martin Salm (left) and Günter Saathoff The board team (right), Uta Gerlant, Jacqueline Rux, Susanne Sehlbach, Monika Bertele, and Chris Tsialampanas Dear Readers, Dear Friends of the Foundation EVZ, We are pleased to invite you to take a look back over the activities and work of our foundation during 2014. The conflict in Ukraine has become entrenched as a front line that cuts across cities and residential areas. Europe once again finds itself torn by war. At the same time, animosity against Jews in Germany and in many other Western European countries is also on the rise. The work of the Foundation EVZ touches on these aspects. In the field of activity “Working for Human Rights”, since the summer of 2014 we have been developing a new programme against anti-Semitism and antiziganism to counteract prejudice and hate against these groups. A programme for transphobia and homophobia is also being developed in the former republics of the Soviet Union. 6 ▪ INTRODUCTION With funds from the German Foreign Office under the auspices of the EUROPEANS FOR PEACE pro- gramme, we established a special youth encounter project entitled Meet UP! German-Ukrainian Youth Encounters in August 2014. The goal of the programme is to