European Summer camps “Forgotten Histories”
In the years 2023-2024 two European summer camps “Forgotten Histories” were organized in cooperation with Action Reconciliation Service for Peace which took place in the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim.
The aim of the project was to support remembrance work on the Auschwitz subcamps and other places related to the Auschwitz camp complex, gather knowledge and debate on the topics of National Socialism and the Holocaust and talk about current forms of anti-Semitism and other forms of exclusion and discrimination.
Here you can find the reports of the two summer camps:
For the project the participants were working in small groups on different places of the Auschwitz camp complex. They researched the histories of this places, gathered testimonies of survivors, conducted on-site researches to find remains and traces as well as memorial signs and marked the locations on the today's map, so that in the future visitors can also visit these places independently.
Here you can find the gathered results of the research the participants carried out:
This summer camp was funded by the European Union within the program CERV (“Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values”).
