Women Concentration Camp Memorial Ravensbrueck by train Women Concentration Camp Memorial Ravensbrueck train private

The site commemorates the about 30.000 women killed here in only 6 years. It honuours their suffering, their resistance and their legendary solidarity. The less crowded memorial has a tremendous size.
A ~1-hour ride by regional train to the spa town of Fürstenberg/Havel.
En route, you will get an introduction to the Third Reich’s expanding concentration camp system. Hundreds of different camps were constructed – only a few were for women.

We will pass through Fürstenberg/Havel located at a lakeside opposite the camp's location. It was highly visible to locals and tourists—especially on days when smoke rose from the crematorium. A dark and nightmarish place in the middle of stunning nature.

The former commandant's villa on the hilltop marks the start of the memorial site tour. He lived here with his wife and children—an idyllic family life right beside the terror camp. But brainwashed minds felt no mercy.

The roll-call square lies at the center of the vast camp complex.
You will get an impression of the tremendous size of the camp, which was built to imprison tens of thousands of women.
We'll see where dozens of barracks once stood, the site of the SS canteen, and the sanitary and disinfection buildings.
On the horizon, former factory halls are still visible, along with one of the cattle train wagons.
At its peak, this camp held up to 50,000 female inmates under terrible circumstances—by far the largest concentration camp for women.

We go inside the detention prison. Some very famous “special prisoners” were held here. It was as well used for punishments. Like solitary confinement in total darkness for weeks.

Wall of Nations – so many different victim groups ...
Once the visual barrier between the camp and the town, today it is a central part of the memorial and culture of remembrance.
Here is space for various forms of commemoration

Feel impressed by “The Bearing” memorial for Olga Benario-Prestes, a German-Brazilian communist and resistance fighte. A monument on a tall column looking over the beautiful lake towards the idyllic town.
It is a stark accusation across the lake towards the town.

Depressing testimonies: shooting wall and crematorium.
We visit the horrifying site of the shooting wall and the adjacent original well preserved crematorium.
Mass killings took place here as well, increasing dramatically toward the end of the war.

Original former staff houses of the female guards. See how they lived a relatively comfortable life directly beside the camp.
Although the world initially did not want to believe it – women can also be terrible perpetrators.
You will learn who these women were, what motivated them, and what happened to them after the war.

Go into the huge former command fortress
The former camp headquarters, which now houses an excellent museum and documentation center.

Time for individual exploration – or just relaxing
You will have 60 minutes to explore the main exhibition in the former command building as well as the site on your own.

The tour ends with the return journey by train to Berlin Central Station..

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