Workshops - Buchenwald Memorial

Detail of the poster for the audio walk. QR codes and short descriptions in different languages.

Buchenwald: An Audio Walk Sounds from Buchenwald, past and present

The audio walk was developed by young people with and without refugee or migration biographies in 2020/21. It is available in five languages.

A member of the education department stands outside next to a whiteboard with the words, "Welcome to the workshop: Recognizing Anti-Semitism"

Anti-Semitism workshop Learning to recognize anti-Semitism in history and everyday life

Anti-Semitism is often defined as "hostility towards Jews" which finds expression in thought and actions. But anti-Semitism is more than that.

Two participants of the found object workshop free two found objects from dirt. The young woman in the foreground is apparently a bowl or a helmet, while the young man behind her is working on a piece of pipe.

Found objects workshop What can a historical object tell us?

Using multimedia learning methods, the workshop offers an empathic approach to the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Various worksheets are lying on a table. A music box lies on top of it.

Music workshop Was there music in the concentration camp?

The camp song of Buchenwald was not the only music that was composed and heard, openly or in secret, in the concentration camp.

The picture shows hands of a person leafing through the educational material "Penig-Box".

"Penig box" workshop A critical approach to analyzing historical photographs

87 photos from the Buchenwald women's subcamp in Penig, Western Saxony. What do they tell us?

Stone on which the sign of the Buchenwald Memorial Trail is sprayed.

Introduction by way of the Commemorative Buchenwald Railway Path Where did the tracks lead to?

Retracing the path of adolescent and child deportees: the Commemorative Path has been a growing monument since 2007.

Two workshop participants stand in front of an information sign outside the Soviet administrative barracks. They both have Ipads in their hands.

Soviet Special Camp Workshop The history of the Soviet Special Camp No. 2

Buchenwald's history did not end with the liberation of the concentration camp: In August 1945, the Soviet Special Camp No. 2 was established. This workshop allows individual source-based approaches to the Special Camp's history.