Apart from long-term service Action Reconciliation Service for Peace offers every year around twenty international Sommerlager (work camps). Students, workers, and others who are interested can work, live, and learn together in short-term projects with others from more than fifteen countries. For the main points of the international work camps there is the preservation and up-keep of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries and memorial centers, helping out with construction and maintenance projects at social projects, and setting up free time activities with handicapped children and adults. However even music and theater workshops or similar projects with the focus on international meetings and contacts are becoming ever more important. With the practical work theoretical discussions occur concerning the issues of the Nazi past, so that a better political conscientiousness for the present and future can be achieved.

 

The work camps are prepared and lead by two or three voluntary leaders.

 

The application for the summer work camps 2010 starts April 1st.  

 

 

“I see my time as a volunteer as an opportunity to contribute to the understanding between Muslims and Jews and between Germans and US-Americans. As an individual this is of course difficult. But perhaps I can simply be a role-model.”

Aness Yacoubi from Wolfsburg, ASF-volunteer in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.