20 Years

EVZ Foundation

Mauthausen — © Luigi Toscano - GEGEN DAS VERGESSEN - Portraits of survivors of Nazi persecution

Living Memory

The founding of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future marks a turning point in our culture of remembrance – the state, the private sector, and society assumed political and moral responsibility for the suffering of forced laborers of the Nazi regime of injustice.

The mission of the EVZ Foundation is to keep the memory of National Socialist persecution alive, to accept responsibility in the here and now, and to actively shape it for the future and for subsequent generations.

Forced Labor in the Dachau Concentration Camp — © BArch, Image 152-01-26 / Friedrich Franz Bauer

Memory

Forced Labor was EverywhereForced Labor was Everywhere

In the 'German Reich', an estimated 13 million people had to do forced labor between 1939 and 1945. It was only with the establishment of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future that Germany recognized the suffering of these people.

© Schätzle/laif - Documentary project "Leben nach dem Überleben"

Responsibility

Critical, Alert, QuestioningCritical, Alert, Questioning

How we as a society shape the future also depends on our understanding of the past. However, being aware of the injustices of National Socialism is only a prerequisite. It is also about combatting the legacies of National Socialist ideas and opposing them resolutely.

23 percent

of the respondents had either not dealt with National Socialism at all or only in a perfunctory manner (MEMO 2021)

The "inDUSTreal" project - The MEET UP! funding program — © Mark Chikivchuk - "inDUSTreal" project - The MEET UP! funding program for German-Ukrainian youth meetings

Future

Strategic DepartureStrategic Departure

Targeted historical and political disinformation, the increase in xenophobic attacks online and offline, and the decline in historical factual knowledge about the history of National Socialism. The challenges are many - we are tackling them with our Agenda for the Future!

Living Memory

23 percent