About our multi-day offers
Our multi-day programmes offer participants in-depth insights into the themes of the memorial.
In our programmes, we convey topics from multiple perspectives and with the greatest possible variety of methods, adapted to the respective target group. In this way, we encourage an individualised approach to a topic. Our process-orientated approach allows us to incorporate the interests of the participants and react flexibly to their needs.
In all seminars, we work with historical documents, biographies and interviews with eye witnesses as well as intensively with the memorial's permanent exhibition. An important part of the programme is also an exploration of the former camp grounds. Special exhibitions on site can also be included if necessary.
The aim is to support participants in finding and developing their own points of view in dealing with history and its significance for the present. We would also like to encourage participants to ask their own questions about history and its continuities up to the present day and to find answers together.
Age and group size
Multi-day programmes at the memorial are designed for three days and are aimed at young people aged 14 and older as well as adults. We offer multi-day programmes for groups of 10 people or more up to a maximum total group size of 60 people.
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The seminar provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Bergen-Belsen POW and concentration camp and the Displaced Persons Camp set up for the survivors afterwards. The history of the site is embedded in the context of National Socialism, social history and the Second World War.
The seminar is made up of a series of modules that are adapted to the age and level of knowledge of the participants and can be varied in terms of duration, methodology and depth of content. These include the basics of the history of National Socialism and the Second World War, exclusion and persecution, deportations, the concentration camp system, the history of the Bergen-Belsen POW and concentration camp, forced labour, the history of the Displaced Persons Camp, the continuities of persecution, the history of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial and the culture of remembrance.
In general, dealing with various perpetrators and those involved in the crimes encourages participants to consider the motivations for their actions and to discuss options for action, questions of guilt and responsibility.
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The seminar comprehensively conveys the functions, interactions and changes of Bergen-Belsen embedded in the context of Nazi ideology, forced labour and the course of the Second World War.
The seminar is made up of a series of modules and is particularly suitable for advanced groups. These include the role of the concentration camps as an instrument of persecution and repression within the Nazi state as well as their development and restructuring from the mid-1930s and later in the war, the Bergen-Belsen exchange camp with its special function, forced labour and the war economy, evacuation transports, death marches and war-ending crimes, the culture of remembrance and the history of the Bergen-Belsen memorial.
Using a variety of methods and various historical sources, documents, photos, drawings and biographies, the participants analyse the above content and the administration of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They will recognise the division of labour as a characteristic of concentration camps and understand which organisations were involved as perpetrators, how the surrounding society, various businesses and other institutions were integrated into the system and supported and sustained it.
The seminar encourages students to examine their various motives in order to understand that the concentration camps were part of an overall social context.
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Please note: The memorial has special dates for multi-day programmes. Please enquire if you are interested.