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Summer is coming soon: Register now for summer camp!

Two weeks of working together and getting to know other places and countries in an international group. That’s what ASF’s summer camps across Europe are all about. Creating a memorial trail, archaeological excavations, maintaining a Jewish cemetery, or researching the traces of forced laborers: many exciting projects await in various locations in Latvia, Greece, Czechia, Poland, as well as in Berlin, Weimar, Osnabrück, and Rostock.

Mountain view in Kryoneri, Greece, with green trees, rocks, and distant sea under a clear blue sky, summer 2024.
In the mountain village of Kryoneri, villagers hid a Jewish neighbor family. The summer camp is researching their story.

This year, our international summer camps once again invite you to discover history on site, take on responsibility, and shape memories together. Whether it’s practical work at historical sites, intensive engagement with the past and present, or international encounters—the new program offers a wide range of opportunities to get involved.

Each summer camp combines a practical project with research and guided tours on a historical-political topic, as well as shared leisure time and excursions in an international group. You will have time together to get to know the place, its history, and its people, as well as to spend time together. Each summer camp brings together people from different countries with many languages and perspectives.

A team will accompany you throughout this period. Thanks to local partner organizations, you will get to know the place in a completely different way than you would on a tourist trip. By getting involved in a summer camp, you are taking responsibility for social developments and sending a strong message of tolerance and democracy.

At the summer camp in Rostock, the group conducts research and tours to explore the memory of the right-wing extremist riots in Lichtenhagen in 1992. In Berlin, the group traces the history of forced labor in the Schöneweide district, and in the Greek mountain village of Kryoneri, they learn more about the story of Rivka, a Jewish girl who was hidden here from the Nazis and thus survived. In the Baltic towns of Višķi and Kelmė, they maintain centuries-old cemeteries and learn more about Jewish culture and history. Summer camps also maintain Jewish cemeteries in Wrocław, Czech Republic, and Wrocław, Poland. In Oświęcim, the group learns more about the history of forced labor at the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp, while in Osnabrück, the project conducts practical research at excavations at a former camp for young prisoners of the Nazi regime. Our program is now online. You can find all the information about the summer camps, participation, and registration on our website. If you have any questions, we are happy to help you personally by email or phone.

We look forward meeting you!

You can find out more about the ASF summer camps and register here: www.asf-ev.de/en/summer-camps/

All information and registration online!

Programme 2026

You have questions? Please contact us

Ein lächelnder Mann mit Brille und grauem T-Shirt blickt in die Kamera. Hintergrund ist neutral grau.

Philipp Ziems

Administrator for International Summer Camps

More infromation on this topic

E-Mail: sommer[at]asf-ev.de
E-Mail: ziems[at]asf-ev.de
Phone: +49 30 28395-220
Fax: +49 30 28395-135

An exciting program

Working with memorial stones along a memorial trail in Weimar-Buchenwald. Image: EKD/Thomas Müller
ASF summer camp at the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin-Schöneweide
ASF-Sommerlager in Viski, Latvia 2024. Bild: ASF
Guided Tour at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial. Bild: ASF
Participants of the summer camp in Rocstock are doing research work on the topics of right-wing extremism and the memory of its victims
The group in Osnabrück conducts archaeological excavations and documents the finds.
The summer camp at the memorial site of the forced labor camp in Berlin-Schöneweide explores the historical traces of persecution in a photo project.
ASF summer camp in Kryoneri, Greece 2024. Image: ASF
Participants of the summer camp in Weimar during an evening walk
Picknick during the summer camp in Berlin

From Kryoneri in Greece in the south to Višķi in Latvia in the northeast, from Osnabrück in western Germany to Mikulov in southeastern Czechia: a varied program awaits you.