Summer Camp
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Between July and August, 2005, for the third time a 14-day summer camp
organized by the Action Sign of Penance Service for Peace and Stutthof
Museum, took place in Sztutowo.
In this year except from Poles and Germans, youth from Ukraine took part
for the first time. Every year participants of the meetings concentrate
their work on preservation and commemoration of the former camp area.
This time all the tasks were related to the building of the so-called
'New Kitchen'. The group of 22 people with their supervisor from ASF (Steffi
& Johnny) and supervisor of the Ukrainian group worked for 6 days
to clean the building area from bushes and small trees. At the end, the
information board with the description of bulding's functions was placed.
Apart from these tasks, members of the summer camp occupied themselves
with history of Stutthof and national socialism. In small groups, they
looked into copies of archive documentation concerning different subjects
(prisoner, SS staff, witnesses' relations), that were later presented
to other members of the meeting. There were also 3 so called 'national
evenings', where history and tradition of members' countries were presented.
The complement of the project were tours to locations of historical meaning
- Gdańsk (where group met with former prisoner - Mr. L. Lendzion) and
visiting the castle of Malbork.
Members returned to their homes with satisfaction and hope for next meetings.
Previous observations and experiences connected with organisation and
realisation of this kind of meetings allow us to hope that a similar project
will be organized in Sztutowo in next year.
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