Concluded projects

of the Institute of Conflict Research

History of the Austrian Camp Community Ravensbrueck

Project Management:	Univ. Prof. Dr. Anton Pelinka
Project Team:	Mag.a Dr.in Helga Amesberger Mag.a Dr.in Brigitte Halbmayr Mag.a Kerstin Lercher
Concluded in	February 2007
	German

The Austrian Camp Community Ravensbrueck, founded in May 1947, is an association of survivors of the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. The primary aim pursued with this project was to identify the legacy of the former Austrian inmates of the Ravensbrueck women’s concentration camp, and thus to underpin the survivors’ long-standing awareness-raising and educational work concerning Nazi crimes as well as Austria’s participation in those crimes. The documentation consequently centres around the activities and tasks of the camp community in its function as a meeting point and centre of supporting point for its members as well as around the community’s contribution to political and historical education. The critical analysis of the past sixty years provides the opportunity to stake out more precisely what shall and can be the task/s of such an association, once the survivors have passed away.