Tuesday, 16.09.2003

Work.

And reporters from the "Riesaer Zeitung" came.

And this is how Google translated the article in a sort of Yoda,-the-Jedi-speak:

Excavations: each stone three times turned

Members of an international Camp look for remainders of the prisoner-of-war camp in Jacobsthal

For well one week take place in Zeithain an international Workcamp.  The order for the participants:  They are to find out if possible whether there are remainders of the prisoner-of-war camp close to Jacobsthal.  Meanwhile they became rich.

by Thomas Riemer

Liesbeth groans little in the late summer heat.  The young Belgian a beginning Architect participates and therefore with enthusiasm at the excavations at the edge of the troop exercise area close Jacobsthal.  Small garden shovels and a brush belong to the implement.  Because archaeology is a sensitive affair. 

21 people between 18 and 48 are for well one week locally.  From 16 countries come they, among them Finland, Guatemala, South Africa, Canada, Thailand and Ghana, tells Campleader Fabian Boy.  The whole was organized of Service Civil the International (SCI), which dedicates itself to international employment and intercultural meetings in over 70 countries. 

In the beginning had we much too few of things gladly here, excavation expert Barbara Schulz says and points to a conventional garden cissors.  Because the data to the area were quite vague.  Aerial photographs of the end of war and current maps, which we put one above the other, approximately the dimensions of the camp could be derived,  explains Barbara Schulz, architect. 

Equal to beginning the Camp members became rich:  in the middle in the forest they found the remnants of a latrine, to a primitive toilet for the prisoners thus.  Few hundred meters a far then even second.  It had closed up completely, is however kept still very good condition, the excavation expert is pleased.  With trained view she gives references to the troops, how it is to continue.  Fabian Boy translates, because official speak  here is English. 

A second small team is busy in the frontier between troop exercise area and camp.  Obviously parts of the old storage race found here,  Barbara Schulz says.  And not at all far also brick-work remains that accommodations of the prisoners suggests.  From everything only in each case a small piece opened  as proof .  Finally all, protected area is  the discovery site.  And long is not clear also yet, as one continues with the excavations.  Conceivable among other things is that it once is to the memorial place Ehrenhain Zeithain,  so their leader Jens Nail,  attached.  But in addition it requires above all financial means that nobody to probably apply can,  Barbara Schulz doubts. 

The Camp participants are meanwhile more enthusiastic with each still so small find.  They became ever better, say Fabian Boy.  Because understanding among themselves, evenly intercultural meeting, is now once the main objective.  Straight with the Zeithainer camp play here and there also emotions, because some of the countries, from which the young people come, have straight civil wars behind itself. 

Still until Friday one searches.  Afterwards the discovery sites and pieces are introduced and analyzed in a kind top plate discussion of the Campprogress.  That becomes reliably an predominantly positive affair.  Because the girls and young did whole work and thus to the region a piece of history showed. 

Excavation expert Barbara Schulz (squatting) does not escape a detail.  At the latrine it constituted fast the building method.  Getting the dimensions of the camp slowly together, so her analysis. 

Liesbeth Florkin from Belgium, Rolf Black from Germany and T.S.Sidde Gonda from India look here for the brick-work, which probably belonged to a prisoner barrack of the earlier camp with Jacobsthal.  The two-week action brought amazing find

photos:  A. Schroeter