Dresden (dpa/sn)- The "Geschlossener Jugendwerkhof" memorial site in Torgau is to receive 185,000 euros in funding. According to the Saxon Ministry of Science, the money will be used, among other things, to create a digital remembrance and documentation platform. Interested parties will be able to find out more about the institutions for children and young people in residential care, psychiatry and care for the disabled in the GDR. According to the information provided, the Saxon Ministry of Social Affairs had previously handed over a database to the memorial site, which forms the basis for the project.
The money comes from the "Structural Development Fund Saxon Lignite Regions" and is to co-finance federal funds amounting to 126,000 euros.
Since 1998, the meeting place has commemorated the prison-like conditions under which the young people were re-educated to become "socialist personalities". The financial aid from the structural development fund is intended to support the transition in the Saxon lignite regions and secure jobs in the course of the lignite phase-out.
