Seminars

At the summer camp, you will intensively explore the history of the Auschwitz camp complex. The program includes study tours of the memorial sites of the former Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, supplemented by preparatory and follow-up workshops. You will not only learn about the well-known aspects of the history of the camps, but also follow traces that can be found outside the memorial sites today. One topic is the connection between the German “model town” of Auschwitz and the camp, as well as the role of German industry, in particular IG Farben, with its own camp: Auschwitz-Monowitz. On the ruins of the former village of Monowice, another concentration camp was opened in the Auschwitz complex in the fall of 1942. It was the first concentration camp planned and financed by a private industrial company and built for the forced labor of prisoners who had to work on the construction site for IG Farben's Buna factory. In workshops, you will learn more about the history of Auschwitz III Monowitz and research the life stories of forced laborers at IG Farben.

The project is funded by the Hans and Berthold Finkelstein Foundation.