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Summer Camps

Two weeks dedicated in summer – all over Europe

This summer, too, international groups across Europe volunteered – #mitASF : They maintained Jewish cemeteries in Poland, Hungary or Lithuania or they uncovered the foundations of a destroyed synagogue in Višķi, Latvia.

Menschen säubern Grabsteine auf einem Friedhof. Viel Grün und alte Grabsteine sind zu sehen. Foto von Piotr Strycharski.
Image: Piotr Strycharski

Other groups researched the life stories of the persecutees in memorial sites or dealt with the relationship between a former concentration camp and today’s living environment in the neighborhood in a photo project. In the German-Israeli summer camp, the participants dealt with queer identities in both countries.

In addition to practical engagement, research and excursions, the international participants also got to know and understand each other and the different imprints and perspectives better during many discussion rounds, free time and excursions.

Do you want to participate in one of the summer camps next summer? Then find out more here.

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Impressions

ASF Summer Camp on Jewish cemetery in Oświęcim, Poland. Image: Piotr Strycharski
On the traces of forced laborers in the Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center in Berlin.
Researching and remembering the lifes of those who the Nazis persecuted.
Working for a memorial path in Buchenwald Memorial, Germany.
Hands on for a memorial path in Buchenwald Memorial, Germany.
Exploring Jewish culture and history in Budapest, Hungary.
On the Jewish cemetery in Budapest, Hungary.
Internatinal encounters - here in Flossenburg Memorial, Germany.
How dealt German society with its Nazi past? Group discussion at Flossenbürg Memorial.
Preserving Jewish heritage in Zarasai, Lithuania.
Documenting grave stones at a Jewish cemetery in Lithuania.
Refreshing in the lake after the work is done, Zarasai summer camp in Latvia 2023.