The media collection is the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum's collection of audiovisual media. It includes audio and visual material stored on more than 3300 data carriers. The creation of this collection began in 1996 and includes media contributions relating to the history of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and the work of the Memorial Museum, some of which date back to the 1960s. Audio and video interviews with camp survivors and film productions on various aspects of the history and memory of Ravensbrück are a valuable part of the collection.
The Ravensbrück Memorial Museum has worked with the filmmaker Loretta Walz on various projects. Since 1980, Walz interviewed women and men from Eastern and Western Europe formerly imprisoned in the Moringen, Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Interviews from this extensive collection can be viewed upon request in the video archive 'The Women of Ravensbrück'.
In 2024, the audiovisual archive of the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum was expanded to include 205 complete interviews conducted by filmmaker Loretta Walz. This was made possible through project funding provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) as part of the federal programme for Rural Development and Regional Value Creation (BULEplus). The collection represents the most comprehensive and coherent documentation of survivors of the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp. It offers a unique, multi-perspective insight into everyday life in the camp, the social structures within the main camp and its satellite camps, as well as the diverse processes of remembrance. The interviews, which have been recorded in a consistent documentary format since the 1980s, are being integrated into the media library. In the future, external users will also be able to access the interviews via the collection database and use them for research purposes. The project was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution passed by the German Bundestag.
The digitally recorded material can be researched on-site in our database. Please register with us with advance notice for on-site research.
