Landwerk Steckelsdorf expansion

In 1934, Jewish youths were forbidden to undergo manual or agricultural training. In order to immigrate to Palestine, however, Jews needed such training. For this reason, Hachshara camps were established for Jewish youths, where they could receive such training. In 1933, a Berlin lawyer, Dr. H. A. Meyer, bought an estate in Steckelsdorf to establish a camp for Bachad/Brith Chaluzim Datiim (Bund religiöser Pioniere). There could be accommodated about 30 to 100 people.

The "Landwerk Steckelsdorf - expansion" consisted of a farm building, cow - and horse stables, fields, Gewächshäusern, Geräteschuppen, barns, a Hnerstall and a summer villa. The average age of the people on site was 18 years. Most of the time there lived about 70 inhabitants. They suffered there not alltäglich at the Nazi regime, were however not completely safe there. 

On 09 November 1938 there were in the country work Steckelsdorf numerous arrests and Abtransporte, against evening the camp was gestürmt and verwüstet.  All boys were deported to the concentration camp Buchenwald and the estate was closed.  However, at the beginning of 1939 it was put back into operation by the Reichsvetretung. 

From the end of 1940, more and more compulsory work outside the camp was introduced. From 1941, Landwerk Steckelsdorf was one of the last places of refuge for Jews. On May 24, 1942, all residents of Hachschara were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. A survivor later wrote a memoir, published under the pseudonym Joel König: Escape from the Nets. 

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