Campo di volontariato
Never Forget Sachsenhausen #1 – Klinkerwerk
Oranienburg, GERMANIA
Attività principali
The study part will include:
• Visit the Sachsenhausen Memorial and learn about its different areas and history.
• Help with the ongoing research of the satellite camp Klinkerwerk.
• Possible work on objects and in the archive.
• Visit the Ravensbrück Memorial (a former concentration camp for women).
• Discuss remembrance culture and meet a descendant of a former concentration camp prisoner.
STUDY PART
Besides the manual work the study component will be an important part of our project. Participants will learn a lot about the time of National Socialism, (i.e. the Nazis) - persecution extermination, and forced labor -as well as about postwar Germany, especially about the Soviet Special Camp which operated at Sachsenhausen until 1950.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to explore the depot and the archive of the memorial site.
*All participants should have a very good knowledge of English and should be interested in history and the present problems of neo-fascism and racism.*
WORK
The common learning at the historical site of Sachsenhausen shall be supplemented by manual work which constitutes the participant´s contribution to the maintenance of the memorial. This part will be rather small. But it means that you should have cloth with you that could get dirty.
Campo di volontariato
Never Forget Sachsenhausen #1 – Klinkerwerk
12 lug → 02 ago (22 giorni · 21 notti)
Dettagli
Luogo Oranienburg, GERMANIA
Area tematica ARCH, EDU, STUD
Età 18-30
Lingua Inglese
Codice VJF/ESC 2.3
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ACCOMMODATION
You will be accommodated in a youth hostel. The building is on the grounds of historical Sachsenhausen concentration camp complex and was built in 1938 as the official residence of the Concentration Camp Inspector, 2 km away from the memorial center.
It is not necessary to bring a sleeping bag. Bed sheets and linen will be provided. You will sleep in shared rooms with a lot of space. There is no washing machine available. There is a washing salon in town.
FOOD
In the hostel there is a big kitchen for the group. Please be prepared not only to cook there, but also to clean up afterwards! This will be done by the kitchen team of your group. Volunteers will cook the meals for themselves. You don ‘t need to pay by yourself, the camp leader will get a budget for food from VJF. Ideas for cooking are welcome. Please bring recipes and ingredients such as special spices from your home country with you for some culinary exchange.
Scopri Oranienburg
Important! Volunteers must be able to ride a bike, because various shorter and longer
bicycle-tours are planned. Bicycles are provided, but helmets are not.
In the free time it's possible to go to Berlin or Potsdam. Volunteers will find many forests and lakes to walk, cycle or just relax. However, the free time activities will mainly depend on participants' ideas.
Requisiti
Important!
For this project it is necessary to have good or very good English skills!
German skills are beneficial.
This project is supported by the program European Solidarity Corps for young people between 18 and 30 years. It is open to all volunteers that fit the ESC criteria.
The participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en
• Volunteers do not have to pay any fee (no sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project.
• Volunteers need to enroll in the PASS, the European Solidarity Corps Portal- VJF will organise their matching, on the online system, with the volunteering project.
• Volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 7€/day, during the visit of the project coordinator from VJF.
• Volunteers will receive a financial support for their travel, according to a maximum amount established in accordance with their travel distance and upon the presentation of original tickets.
• Volunteers will have to complete a participation report, submitted online through the portal.
Organizzatore
Sachsenhausen is a district of Oranienburg, about 33 km north of Berlin. In 1936, the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was established there. It served as a site of forced labor, imprisonment, and violence against people persecuted by the Nazi regime, including political opponents, Jewish people, LGBTQ+ individuals, Sinti and Roma, people with disabilities, individuals marginalized as 'social outsiders' and many others, especially from occupied countries during the war. Thousands were victims of murder and brutal abuse.
Before Sachsenhausen, in 1933, the first state concentration camp was set up in Oranienburg. This camp mainly held political opponents and was later used for Nazi propaganda. It closed in 1934, and many prisoners were transferred elsewhere. Sachsenhausen later became a central camp in the Nazi system, used for SS training and forced labor in industries like brickworks and arms production. In 1945, as the war ended, many prisoners were forced on death marches. Soviet troops liberated the remaining inmates on April 22, 1945.
After the war, part of the site was used as a Soviet special camp. Today, Sachsenhausen is a memorial and museum dedicated to remembering the victims. More information is available at :https://www.sachsenhausen-sbg.de/en/
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