Ideas, values, behavioural patterns, and power structures are passed on from one generation to the next generation. Many Sommerlager programs have taken place at former concentration camps for many years. The groups have worked on preservation, documentation, and archive projects. Often they have the chance to speak personally to survivors of the holocaust. The Sommerlager participants discuss and contemplate historical and current issues with the help of the educational workers at the memorial centre.
Cemeteries are also places of remembrance.
In Europe there are uncountable deserted cemeteries which currently are in disrepair. The German Nazis and their followers wiped out Jewish society in many parts of Europe. They persecuted and killed members of the Jewish community and levelled gravestones. The discrimination, persecution, and expulsion did not end after 1945. After 1989 the Jewish communities gained only partially more freedom in Central and Eastern Europe.