The last part of the project was the ‘Building Bridges: Together Through Sport’ event. This took place in Bratislava from 9 to 11 December 2024. This conference welcomed participants from all over Europe and was aimed at both professionals and volunteers, including athletes and activists, who are involved with sports and anti-discrimination efforts.

In cooperation with the Villa ten Hompel memorial site and the World Jewish Congress, we’re offering police officers from Germany and Austria a face-to-face look at the participation of the Third Reich’s uniformed police in the Holocaust.

In the run-up to and during the UEFA EURO 2024, “Football and Remembrance” is offering a comprehensive programme for dealing with the history of National Socialism. Memorials, places of remembrance and museums are taking part in specific events throughout the country and especially in the vicinity of the ten host cities.

SPORTS.CROWDS.POWER. Football under the Nazis is an exhibition examining football under National Socialism, presented in cooperation with the Berlin Sports Museum, was shown in Berlin from 24 May to 15 August 2024.

The Evonik Industries company has been active in Holocaust education and remembrance efforts for many years. In February 2023, we developed for Evonik a seminar at the Memorial Site Mittelbau-Dora focusing on the use of forced labour under National Socialism.

Even today, the public is largely unaware of the role played by Germany’s ordinary uniformed police, the Ordnungspolizei, in perpetrating the Holocaust. Our EVZ project with the Villa ten Hompel historical site provided a deeper education opportunity to the police themselves.