Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste e. V.

Germany (Berlin)

21.08-31.08.2023 (18-30 years old, international)

The summer camp takes place in cooperation with the Documentation Centre Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin Schöneweide. The focus of the summer camp is biographical work on the fates of the forced labourers and the development of a staged reading.

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Germany (Buchenwald)

22.07. – 05.08.23 (18-30 years old, international))

In addition to practical and maintenance work on the hiking trail called “Buchenwald Railway Memorial Trail” (along the former railway tracks) and / or in the memorial on the former camp grounds, the participants of the summer camp will deal with the complex past of the site.

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Germany (Flossenbürg)

09.08-20.08.2023 (from 18-35 years, international)

The summer camp will take place at the Flossenbürg concentration camp memorial. In addition to the intensive examination of the site itself and the current questions of remembrance culture, the focus will be on working on the digital archive "Memorial Archives".

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Hungary (Budapest)

15.07-27.07.2023 (from 18 years old, participants living in the EU)

A summer camp hosted in Budapest - one of the largest and most dynamic Jewish communities in Europe. In cooperation with the Jewish Cultural Association "Mazsike", participants will immerse themselves in the past and present of Jewish life in Hungary and get to know modern Budapest and the countryside against the backdrop of its long and multifaceted history.

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Israel and Germany

03.08.-17.08.2023 (16-22 years old)

The summer camp in Berlin and Jerusalem is aimed at interested people from Germany and Israel and focuses on diversity, gender and role models in the past and present in German and Israeli society.

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Latvia (Višķi)

31.o7-13.08.2023 (18-30 years old, international)

The summer camp offers the opportunity to learn about the Jewish history of the Višķi shtetl as an example of Jewish history in Latvia and Eastern Europe. The focus is on archaeological work at the site of a synagogue and work at the Jewish cemetery.

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Lithuania (Zarasai)

17.07-26.07.2023 (from 18 years, international)

The focus of the summer camp is the work at a local cemetery. Thematically, the project deals with Jewish history and culture in Lithuania as well as with the changeful, complex Lithuanian history in the 20th century.

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Poland (Oswiecim)

5.08-15.08.2023 (from 18 years, participants from the EU)

In the project, we deal with the history of the site and prepare an information folder in English on the history of the subcamps, which were established in the Nazi era at production sites where prisoners had to perform forced labour in the armaments industry and agriculture.

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Poland (Wrocław)

27.08-07.09.2023 (intergenerativ, international)

The Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw, which has been used as a burial ground by the Jewish Community of Breslau / Wroclaw since 1902, needs a lot of helpers for its restoration. After summer camps have taken place regularly in recent years, the work will continue this year in a intergenerative group. The summer camp is primarily aimed at people aged 40 and over, but is open to anyone of legal age who is interested.

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Program 2023

21.08-31.08.2023 (18-30 years old, international)

22.07. – 05.08.23 (18-30 years old, international))

09.08-20.08.2023 (from 18-35 years, international)

15.07-27.07.2023 (from 18 years old, participants living in the EU)

03.08.-17.08.2023 (16-22 years old)

31.o7-13.08.2023 (18-30 years old, international)

17.07-26.07.2023 (from 18 years, international)

5.08-15.08.2023 (from 18 years, participants from the EU)

27.08-07.09.2023 (intergenerativ, international)