Our Conference & Action Academy took place from October 24 to 27, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
Our Selection Committee invited Senior Fellows as well as their project partners, who submitted the most promising ideas in our 2019 Grant Competition, to meet in Berlin.
Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (Foundation EVZ)
Embedded in an increasingly powerful discourse driven by racism, xenophobia, nationalism and extremist views, recent incidents, data and reports show that Antisemitism is on the rise both in Europe and the United States.
Renowned speakers shared keynote speeches on the situation in the individual countries (Germany, Poland, USA). Open Space formats provided ample opportunity to discuss project ideas, brainstorm further, and be inspired by other teams.
In the summer, we invited grant proposals from Senior Fellows for civil society projects that aim to counter Antisemitism within a broad range of issues that deeply impact our societies. Their projects aim at providing information about historical and present-day forms of Antisemitism, prevention, creating meeting spaces between people with Jewish and non-Jewish identities, linking history and remembrance with the present, developing information and prevention campaigns (empowerment, awareness raising, story telling) as well as targeted resistance to Antisemitic statements or actions. The Conference and Action Academy will bring the teams together for heart- and brainstorming, networking, refining and reshaping elements of their projects and for creating community.
We thank the Foundation EVZ for their generous support of this project.
Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Nina Lazarcyzk created educational cooking workshops called Hospitality Workshops (GośćInność) dedicated for the youth, run by migrants and refugees in order to bring people together.
The "Wave of Smears“ in 1959/1960 is a project that aims to raise awareness of covert Antisemitism, educate about the history of hateful graffiti, and develop teaching materials in Hamburg.
Humanity in Action Senior Fellows Łukasz Posłuszny, Michelle Shofet, and Marissa Sophie Schneiderman created this project, sought to re-conceptualize the ways of remembering the war and the Holocaust, and to discuss social aesthetics of monuments and alternative forms of memory in the context of trauma, and on the other hand it also promoted tolerance among young people and a desire to fight anti-Semitism.
