Description: The former women s concentration camp RavensbrEck was built in 1939 near the small town of FErstenberg/Havel. Until its liberation in April 1945, over 120,000 women and children, 20,000 men and 1,000 underage young women from the so-called Uckermark Youth Protection Camp were imprisoned there. The prisoners came from more than 40 nations. They had to perform forced labor in various sectors, e.g. for SS factories or the Siemens company. Their daily lives were marked by hunger, mistreatment and poor hygienic conditions. Tens of thousands of prisoners were killed. Today, the RavensbrEck Memorial preserves traces and records, promotes remembering and research, and creates a place for active learning and encounters. Every year, international work camps are organized in cooperation with the memorial.www.ravensbrueck-sbg.de

Type of Work: Re:nember them In this workcamp you can get involved in the preservation of the former Nazi women s concentration camp RavensbrEck.Study part:Join us for the first week to get to know the RavensbrEck Memorial and its history. We will deal intensively and artistically with biographies of imprisoned women and survivors who were imprisoned in the RavensbrEck concentration camp and afterwards in the subcamp Waldbaulager, which is part of the RavensbrEck concentration camp.Work part:Various maintenance works in the exterior of the memorial and the collections.

Accommodation: You will live in a shared rooms in the youth hostel on the grounds of the memorial in the former houses of the concentration camp wardens. Full board, simple meals. Please indicate food allergies, etc. when registering.

Language: eng,

Requirements: Please be fully vaccinated (2 to 3 shots of one of the following vaccines: BioNtech/Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Johnson Johnson) or recovered (date of infection must be min. 28 days old and max. 90 days old).

Approximate Location: Brandenburg small town in lake and river landscape, possibility of caning, cycling and swimming, by train in one hour in Berlin and train connection to the Baltic Sea.