Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten Mahn‑ und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück

[Translate to English:] Das Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück bei seiner Erweiterung um das Jahr1940

In 1939, the SS had the largest women’s concentration camp in the German Reich built in Ravensbrück near Fürstenberg. In 1941, a men’s camp was added, and in 1942, Uckermark “juvenile protective custody camp” was taken into operation.
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[Translate to English:] Gedenkzeremonie an der ehemaligen Lagermauer (1950)

After the liberation, the Soviet Army took over much of the former concentration camp and used it as a barracks. From 1948, former prisoners attempted to preserve at least the area around the crematorium and turn it into a place of remembrance.
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[Translate to English:] Einweihung der Nationalen Mahn- und Gedenkstätte 1959

The “Ravensbrück National Memorial” was opened in 1959 and was one of the GDR’s three national memorials. The bronze sculpture “Burdened Woman” (“Tragende”) was at the heart of the memorial’s design on the banks of lake Schwedt. Until 1994, the grounds of the former concentration camp were used for military purposes.
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[Translate to English:] Dauerausstellung "Das Fruaen-Konzentratinoslager Ravensbrück. Geschichte und Erinnerung" in der ehemaligen Kommandantur

In 1993, the Memorial became part of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation. In 2013, the new permanent exhibition “The Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp: History and commemoration“ was opened in the presence of former detainees.
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Events

Exhibition Opening on the life of Vilma Steindling

12. December 2025 – 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr

From 8 to 12 December 2025, the Ravensdruck art project will take place for the twelfth time at the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum. This year, students from the Ernst Litfaß School in Berlin will work on prints inspired by the life story of Vilma Steindling. The project will be especially enriched by the participation of Ruth Steindling, Vilma Steindling’s daughter. more

‘What colour is memory?’

07. January - 09. January 2026

A stage adaptation of Barbara Yelin's graphic novel The Colour of Memory. more

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Laying of the stumbling stone for Ravensbrück survivor Luise B. in Krefeld

11. November 2025

The stumbling block for Luise B. is the first to commemorate a female forced labourer in a concentration camp brothel. It will be laid on 17 December 2025. more

Ravensbrück Memorial Museum mourns the loss of Dr Judit Varga-Hoffmann (1927–2025)

24. October 2025

The Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Retzow-Rechlin concentration camps passed away in Budapest on 23 October 2025. more

Judit Varga-Hoffmann in der Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück
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