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schools, museums and public discussion.
The organization Sharaka will similarly develop exhibitions, community events and educational programs in cooperation with partners in Morocco and Bahrain. The project will focus on Holocaust history, survivor stories and the Righteous Among the Nations while seeking to counter distortion and encourage dialogue in societies where systematic Holocaust education has historically been limited.
The projects share an underlying assumption: remembrance cannot depend exclusively on audiences already interested in Holocaust history. Reaching new generations increasingly means entering spaces where people already gather, whether a football stadium, an urban street, a media newsroom or a classroom thousands of kilometres from the principal sites of Nazi persecution.
Remembering the genocide of the Roma
A significant part of the 2025 Grant Program is devoted to strengthening knowledge about the persecution and genocide of Roma and Sinti, a history that remains much less widely understood than the Holocaust of the Jews.
The Austrian organization OeAD erinnern.at will expand an established European educational platform devoted to teaching about the genocide of the Roma. Working with partners in Germany, Croatia, Switzerland and Austria, the project will update information on individual countries, create new teaching materials and offer guidance for educators confronting new forms of misinformation, including content generated with artificial intelligence.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust in the United Kingdom will connect survivor testimony with surviving material evidence through its Silent Witnesses – Czech Scrolls project. Torah scrolls rescued from Jewish communities and Roma cultural objects will become starting points for films, workshops and digital educational materials addressing both the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma. The project is being developed together with the Memorial Scrolls Trust and the Museum of Romani Culture in the Czech Republic.
Another initiative connects the history of Nazi persecution with the continuing problem of anti-Roma violence after the war. Learning from Oberwart, developed by Austrian Service Abroad together with Terraforming in Serbia, refers to the 1995 racist bombing in Oberwart, Austria, in which four Roma men were murdered. Workshops and educational films will examine the persecution of Roma under National Socialism as well as the persistence of anti-Roma prejudice in post-war Europe.
The emphasis on Roma and Sinti history is significant. Documentation is often dispersed, the voices of victims and survivors remain underrepresented in public memory, and knowledge of the genocide varies greatly between countries. Educational initiatives therefore have to perform several tasks simultaneously: establishing the historical record, making it accessible and confronting stereotypes that have themselves survived for generations.
The 2026 Grant Call is now open! Find out more or apply at the link below.