![[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
Wanderausstellung zu christlichen Frauen im KZ Ravensbrück im Schweriner Dom eröffnet
11. July 2019
Am vergangenen Sonntag, den 7. Juli 2019 wurde die Wanderausstellung „Ravensbrück 1939-45: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager“ im Schweriner Dom eröffnet. more
SeeLesung mit Annette Leo war gut besucht
08. July 2019
Am 6. Juli 2019 fand in der Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück die traditionelle SeeLesung statt, aufgrund der schlechten Witterungsbedingungen allerdings nicht am Ufer des Schwedtsees sondern im ehemaligen Wasserwerk. Zunächst begrüßte Cordula Hundertmark, stellvertretende Leiterin der Gedenkstätte, die etwa 45 Gäste. 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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