📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
1st partner:
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
2nd partner:
zeitlupe | Stadt.Geschichte & Erinnerung
www.zeitlupe-nb.de
💼 What the programme involves
Re:nember them! In this workcamp you can get involved in the preservation of the former Nazi women's concentration camp Ravensbrück as well as the memorial site subcamp "Waldbau". You will spend one week at each memorial site.
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1st WEEK IN RAVENSBRíCK:
Study part:
Join us for the first week to 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 the Ravensbrück concentration camp and afterwards in the subcamp Waldbaulager, which is part of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Work part:
Various maintenance works in the exterior of the memorial and the collections.
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2nd WEEK IN WALDBAU:
Study part:
In the second week we leave the memorial and take the biographies to the still young memorial site "Waldbaulager" in Mecklenburg Vorpommern. There we deepen our artistic exploration of the lives of these women. Who were they? Who did they want to be? What did they experience? What did they remember?
Work part:
Various maintenance work at the Waldbau memorial site to make the memorial site permanently (more) accessible.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Ravensbrück:
You will live in a 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 indicate food allergies, etc. when registering.
Waldbau:
You will live in a shared room at Burg Stargard Youth Hostel. Full board, simple meals. Please specify food allergies etc. when registering. From the youth hostel we will ride bicycles to the memorial site "Waldbaulager".
📍 About the location
Ravensbrück:
Brandenburg small town in lake and river landscape, possibility of canoeing, cycling and swimming, by train in one hour in Berlin and train connection to the Baltic Sea.
Waldbau:
Mecklenburg small town Burg Stargard with Gothic castle.
⚠️ Requirements
Please be fully vaccinated or recovered.