Ravensbrück Memorial Museum
77. Anniversairy of the Liberation of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
12. May 2022
Friday, 29 April 2022
Online Forum
17:00-19:00: International Forum of the Second and Third Generation
Organiser: Ravensbrück Memorial and Remembrance Centre
Meeting of relatives of former prisoners of Ravensbrück concentration camp Moderation: Dr. Andrea Genest/Dr. Matthias Heyl, Ravensbrück Memorial Site
Saturday, 30 April
Exhibition
14:00: Opening of the exhibition ""Resistance - Persecution - Deportation.
Women from France in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp 1942-1945".
Organiser: Ravensbrück Memorial in cooperation with Fondation Tour du Monde
Place: forecourt of the former waterworks Waterworks
Sunday, 1 May
A summary of some impressions of the commemoration can be viewed on Youtube: https://youtu.be/BVpL8eyNZ0w
9 a.m. Commemoration at the Soviet memorial
Place: Soviet memorial, Bahnhofstraße
Organiser: Camp Community Ravensbrück/Freundeskreis e. V.
Central commemoration ceremony
10 a.m. Central commemoration ceremony
Speech by Géraldine Schwarz
Organiser: Ravensbrück Memorial and Remembrance Centre
Place: Vorplatz eh. Kommandantur and memorial site
Laying of a wreath
at the memorial "Die Tragende
12.30 - 1 p.m.
Unveiling of memorial sign for Margaretha Crombeen
Organiser:inside: Veterans Association of the Municipality of Wichelen (Belgium)
13 - 14 h
Official commemoration of lesbian women and girls
Organiser:inside: Initiative Autonomous Feminist Women and
lesbians from Germany and Austria
Accompanying exhibition: "Ways to remember and commemorate
lesbian women in the women's concentration camp in Ravensbrück" in the former
textile factory
2 - 3 p.m.
Inauguration of the memorial sign for the women who performed sex- forced labour
performed
Organiser:inside: Ravensbrück Project Group (Bielefeld)
3 - 4 pm
Inter-religious and inter-denominational commemoration - station trail
Organiser:inside: Working group "Future workshop on interreligious commemoration
Remembrance
