📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
_Approaching history of Racism, Ostracism and Extermination, for example Buchenwald_
Since 1990 this workcamp has been taking place in cooperation with the local youth meeting and education centre on the territory of the former concentration camp (KZ) Buchenwald. After construction in 1937, KZ Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps of the Nazi era. More than 278,000 people from over 50 countries were deported there and deployed to it or its more than 130 sub-camps for forced labour. At least 56,000 people did not survive Buchenwald. They suffered from terrible existential living conditions, were murdered in various ways, died in use in the war industry, or were killed by death marches.
💼 What the programme involves
Mainly cultivation and maintenance on the grounds of the former camp and the former [railroad line Weimar- Buchenwald](https://www.buchenwald.de/en/570/); recovering & analysing buried objects from a waste dump of the former camp (archaeological work); erecting individual memorial stones for those prisoners who were deported from Buchenwald to Auschwitz
🏠 Accommodation on site
In the international youth meeting centre at the memorial place. Volunteers don't have to bring sleeping bags
Selfcatering by the respective cooking teams; Barbecue
📍 About the location
Buchenwald is very close to the city of Weimar, well known because of its large cultural heritage and its importance in German history.
⚠️ Requirements
This workcamp has a very extensive study part, so you must have a strong interest in the subject matter. You must also have good language skills since camp language is English, (the study part can be made in another language though)
ℹ️ Additional information
The participants of the camp will work practically in the mornings - in the afternoons there will be various workshops, discussions, visits to museums and so on, therefore the study part of the project. Always according to the wishes and ideas of the participants!
Trips to Weimar and Erfurt or to other cities independently on weekends; Visiting the partner camp at the memorial 'Mittelbau-Dora' in Nordhausen; Visits to the Goethe-/ Schillerhaus, to the Goethe Park in Weimar possible; swimming pool