Sponsorship of the memorials:
Further tasks of the foundation
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The Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation supports memorials and commemorative intitiatives in non-governmental sponsorship through grants, advice and scientific services.
- The state of Lower Saxony has provided annual funding for memorial work since 1993. The memorials in Esterwegen, Moringen, Sandbostel and Salzgitter-Drütte as well as in Liebenau and Osnabrück-Hasbergen are the main recipients of support.
- Other memorials such as those in Braunschweig, Lüneburg, Schwanewede and Wehnen as well as commemorative intitiatives and other project organisers in Lower Saxony receive funding in line with the purpose of the foundation upon application.
- The "Lower Saxony Memorials Development department" advises projects and supports them from a technical and funding law perspective.
- The foundation supports the memorial sites' education work by providing grants for childcare programmes. A grant can also be applied for for trips to memorial sites in Lower Saxony, especially for school classes.
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The Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation supports research into the historical events of the years 1933 to 1945 and their consequences. To this end, it maintains a central documentation centre on the Nazi era in Lower Saxony.
- The "Documentation centre on the history of resistance and persecution 1933-1945 in Lower Saxony" has been supporting memorials, initiatives, research institutions, local authorities, schools and interested individuals in Lower Saxony in researching, documenting and communicating the history of the Nazi era since 1993. To this end, archival records, finding aids, publications, photographs and other documents in Germany and abroad are catalogued, recorded and prepared accordingly.
- In addition to workshops, the documentation centre organises an annual central conference for Lower Saxony's memorial sites and commemorative intitiatives. It also carries out its own research projects.
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The Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation also realises the purpose of the foundation through
- Discussions with contemporary witnesses, film and theatre performances and readings
- Special exhibitions, academic conferences and network meetings
- Projects in the areas of research, mediation and education
- Further training for memorial centre staff, teachers and multiplicators
- Publications and information material
