Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten Mahn‑ und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück

Events

January

Participatory Reading on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism

27. January 2025 – 11:00 - 13:00 Uhr

Participatory Reading Ravensbrück Reads Ravensbrück: "The Thought of Death Awakens in Me the Desire to Live" – The Year 1945 Reflected in Personal Testimonies. more

Participatory Online-Reading on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism

27. January 2025 – 19:00 - 21:00 Uhr

On this year's Holocaust Memorial Day, a participatory reading will take place online.‘The thought of death awakens in me the desire to live’ - The year 1945 in the mirror of personal testimonies. more

February

International Conference "Europe in the Concentration Camps. The Expanded Camp System 1944"

02. February - 05. February 2025

From February 2nd to 5th, 2025, 80 years after the liberation of the concentration camps, the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation is organizing an international conference on the National Socialist camp system in 1944, when it reached its greatest expansion and the highest number of prisoners. more

March

Memorial Service in Honor of Sister Élise Rivet (Mère Marie Élisabeth de l'Eucharistie)

Élise Rivet – Nun and Resistance Fighter during National Socialism

30. March 2025 – 15:00 - 16:30 Uhr

On March 30, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the death of French nun Élise Rivet will be commemorated. As a member of the Résistance, she helped persecuted individuals escape deportation until she herself was arrested, deported to Ravensbrück, and murdered on Good Friday in 1945. In her memory, the St. Lukas Neubrandenburg parish invites you to a memorial service at the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum. A guided tour of the historical camp grounds and the subsequent gathering in the café provide an opportunity for remembrance and exchange. The event will be held in German. more