📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Memorial Hailfingen/Tailfingen is located close to Gaeufelden, a community that hosted already several workcamps. This year our host is the association, which is in charge of this memorial site for a former subcamp of the concentration camp Natzweiler. In winter 1944/45, 601 Jewish prisoners were forced to expand a military airfield here. Because of the inhumane conditions almost one third of the prisoners died during the short time of three months in which this subcamp existed.
Today the memorial consists of a documentation centre in the town hall of Gaeufelden, the memorial site and a commemorative path. Pedagogical conducted tours are offered, e.g. for school classes, by special Youth Guides. Maybe some kind of artistic action will be realized in cooperation with a local artist.
💼 What the programme involves
Part of the work will be archaeological: to excavate relicts of the subcamp of the former concentration camp, a former airfield. Relicts like pillars of the airplane hangar shall get stabilized and preserved and thus made accessible for the public. You will also cut hedges & bushes on the site and work on the expanding of the commemorative path. Those who are interested can join a film workshop by a local filmmaker, in order to document the work of the group.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The group will be accommodated in a youth centre. It includes a kitchen, sanitary facilities and is situated in a smaller part of Gaeufelden.
📍 About the location
Gaeufelden is a village in the county of Boeblingen and in about 30 km distance to the city of Stuttgart. Hiking trips in the nearby Black Forest are possible as well as excursions to bigger cities.
ℹ️ Additional information
The workcamp will most probably get bicycles for their time in the camp, so they should be able to ride a bike! We ask for a motivation letter to be sent with the application!