Overview
- Survivors including Mala Tribich and Richard Fagot attended the November 6 unveiling and urged vigilance against hatred and antisemitism.
- The memorial comprises 40 stone blocks set into the ground with quotes from former prisoners in multiple languages, designed by Tine Steen and Klaus Schlosser, with one plate left blank for the unknown dead.
- Brandenburg Culture Minister Manja Schüle called antisemitism an alarm for democracy, while Israeli deputy ambassador Guy Gilady warned that Jewish victims risk being sidelined in remembrance culture.
- The marker specifically recalls roughly 20,000 Jewish prisoners linked to Ravensbrück, with historical records noting that about a third of inmates did not survive.
- Documentation highlighted earlier atrocities including the 1942 gassing of around 800 Jewish women at Bernburg and the deportation of 522 to Auschwitz, set within a memorial site first opened in 1959 on the Schwedtsee.