1. Europe for Citizens Programme REMEMBRANCE

2. Structure of the programme 2007-2013 1.Active Citizens for Europe 2.Active Civil Society in Europe 3.Together for Europe 4.Active European Remembrance

3. General objectives of the programme Participation European identity Sense of belonging/ownership Tolerance and mutual understanding

4. Nazism and Stalinism Preservation Commemoration Reflection Networking approximately 4 - 8% of total (2007-2013) programme budget

5. Areas of support  Preservation of individual and collective memory of Holocaust, Nazism and Stalinism  Commemoration of victims of mass deportation and other large-scale martyrdom of Nazism and Stalinism  Encouraging reflection on the origins and the values underpinning European integration  Promotion of reconciliation, tolerance and pluralism

6. Funding allocated 2007-2013 2007: allocated budget : € 1,1 mio (36 projects) 2008: allocated budget : € 1,7 mio (49 projects) 2009: allocated budget : € 2,1 mio (56 projects) 2010: allocated budget: € 1, 9 mio (64 projects) 2011: allocated budget: € 1,8 mio (49 projects) 2012: allocated budget: € 2,4 mio (37 projects) 2013: allocated budget: € 2,4 mio (31 projects) IN TOTAL: 322 projects/€ 13,4 mio funding

7. In addition Operating grants : max. 100.000 € per organisation civil society organisations dedicated to remembrance of the origins of the European integration Mémorial de la Shoah Yahad in Unum  Support to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum "Preserving Authenticity – 9 tasks for years 2012-2015” : € 4 million provided from 2012-2015 for restoration, protection and preservation of historical structures and objects

8. Other developments Launch of networking meetings May 2011 first meeting in Brussels and Mechelen April 2012 second meeting in Copenhagen in cooperation with FRA April 2013 third meeting in Erfurt in partnership with EUROCLIO April 2014 fourth meeting in Prague in cooperation with European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) May 2015 fifth meeting in Tallinn  Since 2010 cooperation with the Fundamental  Rights Agency (FRA) on “Holocaust and Human  Rights Education” October 2010 conference in Terezin October 2011 conference in Anne Frank House Commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the European Commission since 2012

9. 2014-2020 programme Remembrance one of the two Strands (instead of four Actions) Budget increase from 4% to 20% of the overall programme budget for 2014-2020 Moving from competitive memory/screen memory to multidirectional memory From community of "complicity" to community of "reflection"

10. 2014-2020 continued Broadening the scope of the Strand to include: "reflecting on causes of totalitarian regimes in Europe's modern history as well as other defining moments and reference points in the recent European history"

11. 2014-2020 continued Historical moments commemorated in 2014 in particular 100 th anniversary of the beginning of World War I 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall 10 years of EU enlargement to central and eastern Europe

12. 2014-2020 continued Funding 2014 35 projects in the value of € 3 million supported (compared to € 2,4 in 2013) € 1,4 million for operational (institutional grants) for European Remembrance organisations

13. 2014-2020 continued Historical moments commemorated in 2015 in particular 70 th anniversary of the end of World War II and integration of Europe

14. 2014-2020 continued Funding 2015 33 remembrance projects of € 3 million supported in 2015 € 1,4 million for operational (institutional grants) for European Remembrance organisations

15. Roma genocide during WWII The Roma Holocaust is relatively little known and receives relatively less attention in depictions of Nazi extermination policy. The actual number of Roma genocide victims during the Second World War is difficult to assess, but estimates range from 220 000 to 1 500 000. According to academic research, almost the entire Roma population in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg and the Netherlands was exterminated.

16. Project examples Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative Romà Onlus (IT) The project aims to preserve the memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of Nazism, and to strengthen awareness about the Roma Genocide during World War II and to highlight of social exclusion, antigypsyism and hate speech as a consequence of the ignorance and lack of recognition of the Roma Genocide. It brings together over 500 young Europeans, as well as survivors, eye witnesses, experts and different generations in 6 international events in Rome, Jasenovac, Srebrenica, Auschwitz, Berlin and Brussels.

17. Keeping the Memory Alive: the Roma and Sinti Holocaust European Roma Information Office This project aims to create an International Remembrance Network aimed at raising awareness about the Roma Holocaust. The main outputs will be a documentary on the Roma Holocaust with interviews with Roma survivors, experts and academics; the International Remembrance Network formed by organisations, Roma activists, institutions, associations and museums working on or interested by the Roma Holocaust. Five national debates will be put in place to raise awareness about the Roma Holocaust and a Final Conference to disseminate results and to enlarge the International Remembrance Network.

18. The Conscience of Europe The Drom Association, Finland The project starts with exhibition portraying the Roma Holocaust, in the National Museum of Finland. The exhibition will be displayed in 9 Finnish cities and expects an audience of 200 000 in total.. A two day conference The Conscience of Europe will be held in the auditorium of the Finnish Parliament in February 2014.

19. Forgotten Roma Holocaust Roma Press Centre Association, Hungary This project seeks to uncover, document and digitise the testimonies of Roma Holocaust survivors in order to raise awareness of Porrajmos - a relatively unknown and unacknowledged phenomenon in Hungarian society, even within the Roma community. 28 000 to 33 000 of the estimated Roma population of 70 000 to 100 000 were deported from Hungary during the Second World War to the extermination camps. This project focuses on recording oral testimonies, documents and information concerning the genocide of the Roma in Hungary available to professional historians as well as the general public.

20. Seminar for teachers and other history educators from Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina Mémorial de la Shoah Holocaust history - a particular resonance (in the context of conflict 1992-1995) Therefore a need to promote without any taboo a shared reading of the tragic 20th century history

21. Project examples – continued -aspects of Nazi ideology -evolution of genocidal practices -Holocaust in Bosnia and Herzegovina -Holocaust in France -Mass crimes, transitional justice and remembrance process -How to convey the history of Holocaust (teaching and art)

22. "Neighbours who disappeared" Jewish Museum Prague Project addresses young people aged 12 – 18 to work independently on the stories of the life of Jewish children in the same schools/neighbourhoods/regions they live in today. http://www.zmizeli-sousede.cz/aj/

23. "Ponar Lullaby (Being a Jew)" Public Institution Vilko valia with partners in Sweden, Latvia and Poland »To learn about Jewish religion, culture and life in general and in Vilnius before WWII in particular. »To learn about the 70, 000 Jews killed in Ponary near Vilnius during Holocaust and Holocaust as such.

24. "Ponar Lullaby (Being a Jew)" "Can a resident of Vilnius live peacefully without knowing what took place during the war in the old town basements, where hundreds were hiding from police, and without knowing what did Ponar mean for tens of thousands of people locked in ghetto? Can one walk through the same courtyards in which someone got a ticket to freedom but had to choose whom to take along: mother or wife? And which two children to save and which to leave in ghetto to be taken to Ponar to kill? Andrius Uzkalnis

25. "Ponar Lullaby (Being a Jew)" Achievements of the project: Reconstructing the local memory Initiating public debate – Lithuanian National Television produced a 20 minute documentary about the project which was later broadcasted Taken up by the community – as a result of the project Vilnius City approached Vilnius schools to organise similar events to learn about Jewish past of Vilnius and Holocaust

26. "I was born a human being and will leave here as a human being!" Association Juvenile detention centre Torgau Creation of a permanent exhibition to bear witness to the methods used by dictatorial regimes against their own population in a former juvenile detention centre in Torgau to establish a venue for remembrance of the history of not only the former GDR but of Europe as a whole.

27. Examples of other projects “Seeking the Truth” Nation's Memory Institute, Slovakia “Mosaic of Memory” Terezin Initiative, the Czech Republic “The Dossiers behind Faces” Kazerne Dossin – Memorial Museum and Documentatation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium “An innovative teaching tool based on testimonies from survivors of Holocaust” Swedish Committee against antisemitism