Joint funding
The project "Asking the Pope for Help" is funded by the EVZ Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office and Bayer AG. The mission of the EVZ Foundation is to keep alive the memory of the injustice of National Socialist persecution, to accept the resulting responsibility in the here and now, and to actively shape the future. The central motive for establishing the foundation in 2000 was the payment of humanitarian compensations to former forced laborers under the Nazi regime - a milestone in Germany's efforts in coming to terms with the past. Today, the foundation promotes projects focussing on the survivors of National Socialist persecution, international understanding and the strengthening of human rights by means of its fields of activity, Education and Action.