ACTIVITY REPORT 2013 REMEMBRANCE RESPONSIBILITY FUTURE ACTIVITY REPORT 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 GREETING ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 THE FOUNDATION “REMEMBRANCE, RESPONSIBILITY AND FUTURE” (EVZ) ................................ 10 Fields of Activity ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 What Was Funded .................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION ........................................................................................................................................... 16 FIELD OF ACTIVITY 1: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF HISTORY ................................................................ 20 International Travelling Exhibition: “Forced Labour: The Germans, the Forced Labourers, and the War” ......................................................................................................................................... 22 Roma Conference in Berlin .............................................................................................................................................................. 24 Perspectives: Anti-Semitism in the Migration Society ............................................................................................. 26 Victims of the German War of Annihilation in Eastern Europe .......................................................................... 28 Jewish Female Identities Today in the Context of Socio-historical Transformations ........................ 29 Encounters with Eyewitnesses .................................................................................................................................................... 30 Histories in Diversity ........................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Leo Baeck Programme ......................................................................................................................................................................... 34 FIELD OF ACTIVITY 2: WORKING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ..................................................................................... 36 International Conference, “Anti-Semitism in Europe Today: the Phenomena, the Conflicts” .......................................................................................................................................................38 Remembering Sinti and Roma in Mannheim .................................................................................................................... 40 Foundation EVZ brings its experience from the “Stop Hate Crime!” programme to the EU level ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 42 Scholarships for Roma in Eastern Europe ............................................................................................................................ 43 EUROPEANS FOR PEACE .................................................................................................................................................................. 44 International Youth Debate ............................................................................................................................................................. 48 Teaching Human Rights ..................................................................................................................................................................... 50 Forced Labour Today ............................................................................................................................................................................ 52 Stop Hate Crime! ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 54 FIELD OF ACTIVITY 3: COMMITMENT TO THE VICTIMS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM .................... 56 Harassed Existence: Roma Surviving National Socialist Terror in Ukraine .............................................. 58 Portraits of Helpers and Victims ................................................................................................................................................. 60 Dialogue Forum ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 64 Partnerships for the Victims of National Socialism ..................................................................................................... 66 Donations for the Victims of National Socialism ........................................................................................................... 68 Volunteers in Humanitarian Projects of the Foundation EVZ .............................................................................. 70 PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS · EVENTS .................................................................................................................72 Press Trip to Belarus .............................................................................................................................................................................. 74 Press Breakfast: Sustainability Strategy ............................................................................................................................... 76 Foundation EVZ presents itself at the Federal Government’s Open Door Day .........................................77 Day of German Unity in Stuttgart: Information Booth at Citizen’s Festival .............................................. 78 Homepage Relaunch ............................................................................................................................................................................. 79 Events ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 80 PUBLICATIONS, 2013 ...................................................................................................................................................................95 FACTS AND FIGURES .................................................................................................................................................................. 96 Financial Report ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 98 Foundation EVZ Mourns Trustee Dr Max Stadler ........................................................................................................ 106 Board of Trustees, Foundation EVZ ........................................................................................................................................ 108 The Board of Directors and the Foundation’s Team .................................................................................................... 110 Advisory Committees and Juries .............................................................................................................................................. 112 Partners ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 116 ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION ................................................................................................................................................. 118 This report contains so-called QR-codes that can be scanned using a smartphone. These codes are linked to additional information and/or films. TABLE OF CONTENTS ▪ 5 INTRODUCTION Board of Directors: Dr Martin Salm and Günter Saathoff (left) Management Team (right) with Uta Gerlant, Susanne Sehlbach, Dr Ralf Possekel, Jacqueline Rux and Chris Tsialampanas (Volunteer) Dear Friends of the Foundation, For months now, we all have been intensely following developments in Ukraine with great concern. Ukraine is one of the main focuses of our funding. Already during the payment phase of the foundation, Ukraine was an outstanding partner. With over 471,000 individual payments to surviving forced labourers, after Poland it is the country with the most surviving victims of Nazism to receive payments from Germany and the German business community. We have taken responsibility in Ukraine, and want to continuing to do so. Until the completion of this Activity Report, we were able to maintain all project funding in Ukraine, including three projects in Crimea. It is important to us that these elderly individuals forced