The former Buchenwald camp

We keep remembering the huge size of the camp.
And this was only the central camp. There were hundreds more in the entire era - smaller slave labour camps, all connected to Buchenwald.

The memory

Great view from "The Tower of Freedom", over the memorial site and over the entire region.
Will stay in our memory.

Evaluation

On our last day together, we gave our hands in evaluation.

 

Did you know this method for team evaluation?

Seventh day - one more to go!

 Visiting several exhibitions in the former camp

 and memorial places

Sixth day

We continued the work on the railway path, at the memorial stones, in the restauration laboratory.
In addition, we went to the archives of the Buchenwald memorial

to understand how documents are kept, researched, connected with objects and places, used to discover stories and people.

Fifth day - an evening of debates

We all made presentations about the histories of racism, exploitation, hate crimes and, on the other hand, fights for equal rights, in our countries. Also, presentations about the projects we have made/ participated in, on similar topics.

As conclusions, we thought about ways to act in society, in order to use the dark past in order to build a better, more just present and future.

Here we show you some of our ideas.

Fifth day - morning of remembrance

 Today we visited the commemoration complex built here, in Eastern Germany, in the '50s

 "The Avenue of Nations" - symbolizing international solidarity

 "The Stairway of Freedom" - symbolizing the contribution of the inmates to the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp

 "The Tower of Freedom" - commemorating the Buchenwald Oath - an oath against nazism which was taken by the survivors of the camp, on the 19th of April 1945, 8 days after their eliberation

Fourth day - restauration work

We had again the opportunity to contribute to the history of Buchenwald:
- we did practical work, cleaning and restauring artefacts
- discovering objects from the history of Buchenwald
- making them available for further research and understanding
- learning how history is made from objects and how objects are made from histories

Fourth day - the crematorium

Going inside the camp's crematorium and learning about the complete de-humanization even in death was really a difficult experience for all of us.
It was a lesson from the past.
We want to build a more peaceful, equal and just society from this dark past.
How would you contribute to it?