Never Forget #4: What happened in Ravensbrueck?

CORONA-UPDATE: For safety reasons, 15th Ravensbrücker Genereationen forum and SOUND IN THE SILENCE, are cancelled. The very old survivors cannot risk travel and artists don't have preparation time now and possibly cannot travel. The project partner is willing to run the workcamp eather and works on a new concept for the study part. We will keep you updated. In this year, the project in Ravensbrück will continue to connect practical work and study with youth meetings. In the memorial, there are many possibilities to read about the history of the women’s concentration camp and about the background of fascism. Volunteers can use materials from the library and the archives in different languages. A main topic for the study part will be the special camp, where the participants work. VJF-group will also participate in the 16th RAVENSBRUECKER GENEREATIONENFORUM, a meeting with former inmates from Israel, Hungary and England. You will parallel participate – in commemoration of Ravensbrueck – in the performance-project SOUND IN THE SILENCE. All participants are encouraged to join study groups on the topics of Creative Writing, Theatre, Dance and Sound, where they can develop creative content with others as a part of the performance. Your performance will include the fates of the time witnesses you will meet and will be presented in the GENERATIONENFORUM The group will do some maintaining work on the area of the women's concentration camp. There are many different tasks to be done: cleaning the area of wild-growing vegetation, environmental work and investigation work. Your help will be needed to clean sculptures, to prepare a working site and to do other works outside.