This morning we started a little bit earlier than the other days. After breakfast we went to the train station and took the train to munich. In munich we went on the train to Dachau and took the bus to the concentration camp memorial site. When we arrived we met Maria Stettner who is a member of the lutheran church in bavaria. She works in the oecumenical department and is responsible for our partnership. She joined us to see how our partnership looks like.

We split our group in two and had a guided tour through the memorial site. We visited the museum, heard and read about the people who where imprisioned in the concentration camp. One of the groups went to the baracks, where the people were sleeping and having their showers and the bathroom. Then we went to the crematory where some inmates were executed and where the dead people were burned.

After the crematory, we went to the lutheran church of reconciliation in the concentration camp memorial site where we took part in the weekly Coventry prayer. At the service one of our palestinian and one of our german group members lit candles for two persons who survived the concentration camp. Both of the survivers are still allive. One of them is living in Palestine and the other one in Bad Tölz, Germany.

After the church we had a break and some of us, who did not see the baracks yet, went there. They also went to the bunker, where they had single cells for the inmates who did something wrong and were punished.

When we finished the break we all sat together in a circle to meet Ernst Grube. He is a 86 year old jewish man who was a kid, when his aunts and their families were deported to a extermination camp and killed by the Nazis. Ernst Grube and his family didn´t get deported because just his mother was jewish and his father was not.

In our conversation, Ernst Grube told us about his life and his experiences. We also had the possibility to ask him questions.

After this very interesting conversation we took a picture with Ernst Grube, said goodbye to everyone and went back to our house.

We had dinner and after a little bit of free time we did a reflection about our visit at the concentraion camp memorial site in three groups.

After another break we had a day closing by Volker and Sally where we prayed and sang songs.

The trip to the memorial site was very interesting but also very exhausting and emotional.

Sophie & Mariana

 

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