📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The former women's concentration camp Ravensbrück was built in 1939 near the small town of Fürstenberg/Havel. Until its liberation in April 1945, over 120,000 women and children, 20,000 men and 1,000 underage young women from the so-called "Uckermark Youth Protection Camp" were imprisoned there. The prisoners came from more than 40 nations. They had to perform forced labor in various sectors, e.g. for SS factories or the Siemens company. Their daily lives were marked by hunger, mistreatment and poor hygienic conditions. Tens of thousands of prisoners were killed. Today, the Ravensbrück Memorial preserves traces and records, promotes remembering and research, and creates a place for active learning and encounters. Every year, international work camps are organized in cooperation with the memorial.
www.ravensbrueck-sbg.de
💼 What the programme involves
Study part:
In this work camp you can get involved in the preservation of the former National Socialist women's concentration camp Ravensbrück. Together with us, you will get to know the Ravensbrück memorial and its history. We will deal intensively and artistically with biographies of imprisoned women and survivors who were imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp. The former women's concentration camp Ravensbrück was built in 1939 near the small town of Fürstenberg/Havel. Until its liberation in April 1945, over 120,000 women and children, 20,000 men and 1,000 underage young women from the so-called "Uckermark Youth Protection Camp" were imprisoned there. The prisoners came from more than 40 nations. They had to perform forced labor in various sectors, e.g. for SS factories or the Siemens company. Their daily lives were marked by hunger, mistreatment and poor hygienic conditions. Tens of thousands of prisoners were killed. Today, the Ravensbrück Memorial preserves traces and records, promotes remembering and research, and creates a place for active learning and encounters. Every year, international work camps are organized in cooperation with the memorial.
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Work part:
You will help with various maintenance works in the exterior of the memorial and the collections.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will live in shared rooms in the youth hostel on the grounds of the memorial in the former houses of the concentration camp wardens. Full board, simple meals. Please specify food allergies etc. when registering.
📍 About the location
Brandenburg small town in lake and river landscape, possibility of canoeing, cycling and swimming, by train in an hour in Berlin and train connection to the Baltic Sea.
⚠️ Requirements
Please be fully vaccinated or recovered.
