📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
During World War II the Concentration Camp Neuengamme was developed to be the central concentration camp for northwestern Germany with more than 80 sub-camps. Almost half of the 100.000 concentration camp prisoners from all over Europe were murdered by the SS’s principle of „extermination through labour“.
Its history is marked by a variety of engagement. For decades, until the 2000s, there were two prisons on the area of the former concentration camp, so that the bigger part of the area could not be accessed by the public. It were the participants of the first Workcamp in 1982 who laid a first circular trail around the area and placed first information boards.
This year the workcamp will deal with this complex history and thereby create an audio-guide in English.
💼 What the programme involves
Creating an audio-guide (in English and other languages) for future visitors of the concentration camp memorial to provide information about the concentration camp and the memorial site. The results will be documented on a common blog. In addition to the research and the editorial work, there will be the possibility of doing some gardening at the memorial site.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In rooms, kitchen and dining in big tents.
📍 About the location
Neuengamme is an outer district of Hamburg and 30km away from the city center. Hamburg has 1.8 million inhabitants and the biggest seaport of Germany. The City offers more than 60 theatres, 100 music clubs and about 60 museums.
Excursions to Hamburg will be organised.
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in historical topics and self-initiative (important: knowledge of English and/or German)
ℹ️ Additional information
Today the Concentration Camp Memorial is a place of commemoration, information, education and research. It is an achievement of political struggles in post-war Germany up until the present day.