Commitment and Impact: Programs

Since 2021: Education Agenda on Nazi Injustice 

With funding from the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), the EVZ Foundation has been implementing this groundbreaking funding program since 2021. The aim is to promote democratic attitudes and counteract Antisemitism, racism, Antigypsyism, and LGBTIQ hostility. The projects make the fates of those persecuted visible and create new, interdisciplinary approaches to learning about and understanding Nazi history. In the first funding period of the Education Agenda on Nazi Injustice from 2021 to 2025, the Foundation funded 76 projects across Europe. These projects have won numerous awards, including the Grimme Online Award and the DigAMus Award. 

YOUNG PEOPLE remember on site & committed 

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), the funding program's YOUNG PEOPLE remember committed funding line encourages young people to critically examine Nazi history and draw parallels with the present day. It promotes participatory, self-determined youth work. The funding line YOUNG PEOPLE remember on site is aimed at memorial sites and history initiatives at historical locations and supports them in developing innovative and digital communication formats.   

YOUNG PEOPLE remember international 

Funded by the German Foreign Office, YOUNG PEOPLE remember international enables transnational learning projects at historical sites of Nazi persecution in Germany, Europe, and Israel. Young people critically examine history on site and reflect on European cultures of remembrance. The program will celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2025. 

Asking the Pope for Help   

During the Nazi regime, thousands of people wrote desperate letters to the Pope and the Church asking for help. In this project, funded jointly by the German Foreign Office, Bayer AG, and others, a team from the University of Münster examined around 15,000 of these letters in the Vatican Archives, digitized them, and thus making a new source of remembrance culture available. 

Since 2025: MemoRails   

The MemoRails program raises public awareness of railway stations as sites of Nazi deportations. Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), it promotes civil society initiatives that commemorate Nazi crimes and their consequences in a contemporary and creative way.