International summer camp at the Buchenwald Memorial

Educational work, themed excursions, biographical research, political action – these topics are on the agenda of the international summer camp in Buchenwald! You group will help with the care and maintenance work on the “Buchenwald Railway memorial path”, remembering the people deported from Buchenwald to Auschwitz. You will create additional named memorial stones for this path. The practical work will take place in the mornings. In the afternoons there is an extensive study component. In consultation with the ideas and wishes of the participants of the camp, there will be workshops, discussions, tours and museum visits taking place. You will be dealing with different aspects of the complex past of the site, such as the relationship between the classical city of Weimar and the Buchenwald concentration camp. Additional focus will be placed on the question of how societies remember events and the roles that such sites play in society. As part of the programme, there will be excursions to Weimar, Erfurt and the Mittelbau-Dora memorial. The well-stocked International Library and the archive are also available for research (on the individual stories of detained people, for example). https://www.buchenwald.de/en/130/ https://www.buchenwald.de/en/69/ http://www.gedenksteine-buchenwaldbahn.de/content/hoempage.html