Since 2018, the Bochum fan project has been organising an annual educational trip for football fans to the Buchenwald memorial together with the VfL Bochum 1848 fan support team, interrupted only by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bochum fan project is a youth welfare organisation that carries out social work with young and young adult football fans of VfL Bochum 1848.
In addition to the ‘classic’ work, we also use football as a vehicle to convey topics in various areas that football fans would otherwise not have access to on their own.
One of these areas is remembrance work, which also includes the educational trip to the Buchenwald Memorial. The trip to the Buchenwald memorial site is a deliberate choice, as there were three subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Bochum, which gives it a strong local connection.
The educational trip is embedded in a programme with the Jewish community of Bochum-Herne-Hattingen and Zweitzeugen e.V., which focuses on the story of Shoah survivor Rolf Abrahamsohn, who was imprisoned in one of the Buchenwald subcamps in Bochum and was chairman of the Jewish community for many years.
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