Germany:
Mittelbau-Dora: Making Visible - Remembering and Shaping
Kamp Kodu
ijgd 75140
Başlangıç - Bitiş Tarihi
26.07.2025 /
09.08.2025
Toplam Kontenjan
12
Boş Kontenjan
0
0
Yaş
18 - 26
Ekstra Ücret
Yok
Kamp Temaları
STUDRENOCONS
Organizasyon
IJGD
Kuruluş
The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
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İş Tanımı
The two-week international encounter project on the site of the former Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp has the motto ‘Making visible’ and is thus actively involved in the design of the site of today's memorial.
The work during the summer camp will consist of excavation work and the visualisation of a barrack foundation in the infirmary of the former prison camp. The work will take place outdoors, in a wooded area, and large and heavy stones will have to be cut. These stones are turned into flat Outline walls set. The work is part of a larger project: the remains of the foundations on the sites of former barracks are to be gradually made visible again so that visitors to the memorial site can recognise the camp structure, which barely exists any more. This year, work will continue on a foundation that has already been started.
The education and communication part of the project will focus on the history of the Nazi concentration camps and the use of concentration camp prisoners in the underground relocation of the armaments industry - using the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp as an example. Due to the location of the project, the focus will be on the so-called prisoner infirmary. The topic of medicine under National Socialism will therefore also be covered. This topic will be approached through tours, working with various sources, exchanging ideas with each other and joint digitally supported project work.
The ‘Dora labour camp’ was founded at the end of August 1943 as a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. As part of the underground relocation of German armaments production in the last two years of the Second World War, concentration camp prisoners had to develop a tunnel system in the Kohnstein mountain near Nordhausen into an underground rocket factory. Series production of the rocket propagated by the Nazi state as ‘Retaliation Weapon 2’ began in January 1944. During the first few months, the prisoners had to live and work in the tunnels. It was not until spring 1944 that an above-ground barracks camp was built and the Dora satellite camp became the Mittelbau concentration camp in its own right. More than 60,000 people from almost every country in Europe, mainly from the Soviet Union, Poland and France, had to perform forced labour for the German armaments industry in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp complex between 1943 and 1945. One in three of them died.
Konaklama ve Yemek
You will be staying in the preparation centre of the Protestant parish of Salza in Nordhausen (Evangelical Church District Südharz | EKM). You will stay overnight and live in a separate house on the parish grounds. There are up to 16 beds in the house. There are three-bed rooms and two-bed rooms available. The house also has washrooms with showers, toilets, a washing machine and a large lounge. The accommodation is approx. 15 minutes by bike from the memorial.
WLAN is only available in the memorial centre. Mobile phone reception is average and you will be staying in the Rüstzeithaus of the Protestant parish of Salza in Nordhausen (Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Südharz | EKM). You will stay overnight and live in a separate house on the parish grounds. There are up to 16 beds in the house. There are three-bed rooms and two-bed rooms available. The house also has washrooms with showers, toilets, a washing machine and a large lounge. The accommodation is approx. 15 minutes by bike from the memorial.
WLAN is only available in the memorial centre. Mobile phone reception is average.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
Around 40,000 people live in Nordhausen. The town has a large hospital, a theatre, a cinema, several museums, a university and a tram. Excursions into the surrounding area are possible, as bicycles are provided. Nordhausen is located south of the Harz Mountains. A tourist highlight is the Harz narrow-gauge railway (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen | Home | Home). This is a historic train with a steam locomotive that travels up the highest mountain in the Harz Mountains, the Brocken, every day. Hikes or excursions into the countryside are very easy. There are open-air swimming pools and lakes on the outskirts of the city. Cities such as Leipzig, Göttingen and Weimar are easily accessible by train. Excursions to the Buchenwald Memorial and the Forced Labour Museum in Weimar are planned.
Notlar
two teenage places only for German volunteers
Konuşulan Diller
English
En Yakın Terminal
airport: Halle/Leipzig, trainstation: Nordhausen-Salza (200 metres from the accommodation, regional train RB 80, runs between Göttingen and Nordhausen), Nordhausen main station (3 km from the accommodation, connections to Kassel, Frankfurt am Main, Erfurt, Halle an der Saale and Leipzig)
Havaalanı
LEJ
Konum
Nordhausen, Free State of Thuringia, 75 km to Erfurt, 85 km to Göttingen
