Malchow | NIG09 | 2024-09-09 - 2024-09-20 | ARCH | Age: 18 - 27

This project is organized by NiG e.V., a german non-profit and non-government organization. In this project we work together with the town Malchow.

Work: The participants will work on the area of an external camp of the former women´s concentration camp Ravensbrück. The women had to work there under very extreme conditions in an armament’s factory. First steps will be taken to build a memorial on the area where the former prisoners were accommodated. The volunteers are supposed to bring some ideas about the future of the memorial.

Accomodation and food: The volunteers will stay in a hostel. Full board is included (also vegetarian).

Location: MalchowZipcode17213

Location and Leisure: Malchow is a small city in the southern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. What once started as a village on the island of the Malchower lake, later became a town with about 6600 inhabitants and an important health resort between two great lakes and within the Malchower lake. But in between those times the town Malchow was mainly known for two things: The first thing was a manufactory for ammuniation in Malchow that was a company established during the times of the regime of the Nazis. Half of the manufactory workers were forced labourers from abroad. The second thing was an external labour camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women that was built in 1943. Hundreds of women, most of them Hungarian jews, had to work under inhumane conditions. A lot of them died. Leisure time: Excursions (swimming, short trips) can be planned.

Airport: BER

Train/Bus station: Nearest train station: Malchow

Requirements: Please bring a sleeping bag, a mattress pad, working clothes and motivation.

Language: eng

Extra Fee: 0