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If you or your corporation chooses to support any of these projects, any mailings or documents (online and hard copy) associated with the project will bear your name, or your corporation’s. If you wish to remain anonymous, we will note Anonymous Donor. Contact Ruth Sachs for additional information on any project.

Research Center Fund

Beginning in April 2008, we hope to have a stand-alone facility ~ not connected to any museum or university ~ that will permit scholars to study primary and secondary sources "hands-on," either in the original German or in English translation. Ruth Sachs' Access database will be made available free of charge, as will our library.

To make this a reality, we need your tax-deductible donations, as well as contributions of time (cataloging and wo-manning the facility) and materials (books, videos, DVDs, archival materials, or computer equipment).

In the beginning, we will focus on White Rose resistance. Our mid- and long-term goals include expanding to other German resistance, then to European (Jewish, French, Danish, Belgian, Albanian, etc.), and finally to informed dissent whenever and wherever it has occurred and continues to occur.

Speakers Bureau Fund

To help us "get the word out" to high schools, community, colleges, and universities that can pay for some but not all of the cost of a lecture series, you can make a difference by contributing to this fund. Typically, educational institutions require a subsidy of approximately 30%.

Specific Speakers Bureau Projects

High School for a Day

$500 funds a one-day speaking engagement at a public high school;

$1,500 funds texts and newsletters, plus one-day speaking engagement, to an entire classroom of public high school kids;

$5,000 provides textbooks and newsletters to five classrooms in public schools;

$7,500 provides textbooks and newsletters, plus individual one-day speaking engagements, to five classrooms in public schools.

German-Jewish Dialog

$1,500 funds an afternoon or evening in a synagogue or church;

$7,500 funds a mini-conference (two days), complete with White Rose books for fifty people, in a synagogue or church;

$15,000 funds a mini-conference (two days), complete with White Rose books for 250 people, in a synagogue or church;

$25,000 funds a five-day conference, complete with White Rose books for 250 people, in a synagogue or church.

Subsidizing the White Rose Newsletter

$3,500 funds an annual subscription to the White Rose newsletter for one year for 1,000 schools. (Exclamation! Publishers foregoes all revenues—usual subscription rate is $48 / year.)

Publications

$35,000 will pay for the publication in English translation of Lilo Ramdohr's memoirs.

We would be willing to work out a contract with the sponsor of any of these publication projects to either share profits or to provide 500 gratis copies to the university of your choice. Project cost includes all advances and royalties, design and layout, production, and warehousing.

$18,000 will pay for the publication in English translation of a collection of essays written by German scholars.

Access Online

$125,000 will pay for uploading and maintaining our Access database online for one full year. Cost includes technical consulting fees (we don't have an IT department) and enhancement of hardware and software capabilities to implement that huge database. It would be fully searchable and available for a reasonable subscription fee to any academic or interested party.

White Rose Documentary

$250,000 funds the making of a two-hour documentary (targeted at high school and college students) on the research that went into the White Rose. Includes interviews with members of the White Rose resistance movement who have since died.

$10,000 funds five years of making the documentary available to high schools and universities free of charge.

White Rose Mini-Series or Serialized Television Program

This is arguably the most ambitious of all our projects, but the most necessary for public awareness. We have already lined up a young Jewish director, an Emmy-award winning writer, an artistic director (winner of the Fulbright’s Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for International Scholarship on Dance), and American, German, and Jewish musicians.

We are looking for a few major corporate sponsors – similar to Mobil Corp.’s sponsorship of Mystery Theater. And yes, we would be open to an arrangement that included revenue-sharing of the finished product, ie, whenever the mini-series or serialized program is aired or sold.

Why a mini-series or serial instead of a film? The story of the White Rose is about far more than just what “they” did on February 18, 1943 and the weeks prior to that. The meat of the story involves how they arrived at the decision that they had to resist Hitler’s regime.

For some, their journey started in Hitler Youth, completely enamored of the “fresh air” that the Nazis seemed to bring. Others recognized the danger immediately and refused to associate with friends who joined Hitler Youth.

They each reached their turning points in various manners. Some witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto. Others became suspicious when good “German” books (Heinrich Heine, Stefan Georg) were banned. Some did great things, some did small things.

Just as Roots – in mini-series form – allowed the US to become conscious of the horrors of slavery, so a mini-series about the White Rose would allow the character development (as opposed to merely plot development) that could once again stir the public’s emotions.

More important, a mini-series allows a clearer understanding of exactly what went on. My new motto of sorts has become: Not all heroes are good people, and not all good people are heroes; not all villains are mean people, and not all mean people are villains.

All too often, we assume that e.g. all Nazis were awful human beings and all those who resisted were “good” – when in fact the truth is that some heroes kicked their dogs and some villains loved their mothers.

Only if we stop seeing the world in strict grains of black and white will we be able to ensure that genocide and holocaust are not repeated.

We estimate the cost of making the mini-series (filmed on location) to be between $30 and 50 million. Many people involved in the project are deferring all but living expenses until the series airs, thereby keeping costs low.

Please let us know if you’d be interested!  Contact us with any questions you may have.

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Date of last update: 18 March 2008