📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
In June 1933, just a few months after the takeover of power by the National Socialists, a concentration camp was opened at the former renaissance palace in Prettin. Lichtenburg concentration camp was used as an SS training centre and served as pattern for other camps.
After its disbanding in august 1937 it served as concentration camp for female prisoners, from 1941 to 1945 as satellite camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. From 1933 to 1945 more than 10.000 people were imprisoned there. Their daily life was characterised by hunger, mistreatments and bad hygienic conditions. The prisoners had to do forced labour, e.g. they had to build a city park in Prettin which was inaugurated in 1936.
History and present of that park will be focused during the international workcamp.
💼 What the programme involves
Gardening, clearing up the city park, cleaning and painting the historical fountain and the historical fence, realization and examination of interviews with local residents.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Open-plan tent on a camping site, directly situated at a swimming lake, you need to bring your own sleeping bags, linen and pillows with you, camping beds will be arranged, self-sufficiency at the kitchen bungalow, there are bikes for all volunteers.
📍 About the location
Prettin is a small town with 2.000 inhabitants, located in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (120 km southwest of Berlin). Today it belongs to Annaburg, which is 10 km far away. Prettin was first mentioned in 965. In the 16th century Lichtenburg renaissance palace was built on behalf of Elector August I of Saxony.
⚠️ Requirements
Knowledge of German is welcome.
ℹ️ Additional information
Good leisure time facilities, e.g. swimming, dragon boat, miniature golf, bowling, trips along the river Elbe, to Wittenberg and Berlin are possible,