📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
During World War II, the Concentration Camp ‘Neuengamme’ was built as a central concentration camp for northwestern Germany with more than 80 sub-camps. Almost half of the 100.000 prisoners from all over Europe were murdered by the SS principle ‘extermination through labour’.
Today, the memorial is a place of commemoration, information, education and research. Until 2003/2006, there were two prisons on the area of the former concentration camp, so the bigger part of it could not be accessed by the public. The participants of the first Workcamp in 1982 created a circular path around the area and put up information boards.
This year's Workcamp will deal with the former air-raid shelters for the SS which are situated on the former Concentration Camp area and are not open to the public so fa
💼 What the programme involves
- Creating a showcase exhibition of the former air-raid shelters for the SS for future visitors
- Documenting the buildings and working on them
- Talking to representatives of the Second Generation
- Processing all results by creating articles for blogs and local newspapers
- Possibility of public literary/ artistic events
- Taking part and creating some contribution for the annual commemoration in a nearby former satellite camp for female prisoners
- Some physical grounds maintenance work on the memorial site
🏠 Accommodation on site
In rooms; kitchen and meals in big tents next to the building; the accommodation will be on the area of the memorial
📍 About the location
Neuengamme is an outer district of Hamburg and 30km away from the city centre. [Hamburg](https://goo.gl/maps/UCGJ8hT2aQM2) has 1.8 million residents and the biggest seaport of Germany. The city offers more than 60 theatres, 100 music clubs and about 60 museums
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in historical topics and self-initiative (important: knowledge of English and/or German)
ℹ️ Additional information
Excursions to Hamburg are planned