![[Translate to English:] Das Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück bei seiner Erweiterung um das Jahr1940](fileadmin/_processed_/a/9/csm_start_1939_1945_daf1e26a31.jpg "[Translate to English:] Das Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück bei seiner Erweiterung um das Jahr 1940")
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)](fileadmin/_processed_/8/a/csm_start_1945_1959_dcc2306636.jpg "[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](fileadmin/_processed_/4/7/csm_start_1959_1992_d7aa7c269b.jpg "[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](fileadmin/_processed_/5/3/csm_start_1993_1_4d35ae2cb5.jpg "[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
News
Stiftungsrat beschließt Nachfolge der bisherigen Leiterin der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück
05. February 2020
Dr. Andrea Genest wird ab dem 1. August 2020 die Leitung von Dr. Insa Eschebach übernehmen, die am 31. Juli in den Ruhestand geht. Die Berliner Politikwissenschaftlerin wurde durch den Stiftungsrat der Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten auf Vorschlag einer Auswahlkommission in ihr neues Amt berufen. Sie wird zudem Stellvertreterin von Stiftungsdirektor Dr. Axel Drecoll. more
Ravensbrück liberated: Writing on the wall.
29. January 2020
Am 27. Januar nahm die Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück am bundesweiten Beleuchtungs-Flashmob "Lichter gegen Dunkelheit" teil. more
Memorial Museum Ravensbrück
Straße der Nationen
16798 Fürstenberg/Havel
+49 33093-608-0
info@ravensbrueck.de
Opening hours
Exhibitions:
October to April: Tue - Su 9 am - 5 pm
May to September: Tue - Su 9 am - 6pm
Memorial grounds:
October to April: Tue - Su 9 am - 5 pm
May to September: Tue - Su 9 am - 8 pm
Highlighted objects
Isa Vermehren
The memoirs of Isa Vermehren are among the earliest published eyewitness accounts. The first edition was published by Christian Wegner Verlag (Hamburg 1946) with the title A Journey through the Final Act: A Report (10.02.44 to 29.06.45). Numerous editions of Vermehren’s book have been published since then, most recently by Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag (Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005).
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