Former youth concentration camp and later extermination site Uckermark

"[...] we rejoiced in life. We were so young that we still had a lot of vitality in us. We were probably deformed by these difficult times. We are probably different than we would have been otherwise. [...] But otherwise we are happy to be alive."
Quote from Stanka Krajnc Simoneti after her liberation from the Uckermark concentration camp

The exhibition focusses on the Uckermark concentration camp, where young women* and girls* were imprisoned, tortured and humiliated. From 1942 to 1945, a total of around 1,200 girls* and young women* were imprisoned there.
The majority of the minors (under 21) were brought there because they had been discriminated against by the welfare authorities as 'asocial' during the National Socialist (NS) era.
by the welfare authorities. Some of the young people were imprisoned for other reasons, such as political resistance.
In January 1945, the SS ('Schutzstaffel') set up an extermination centre in a large part of this camp and murdered around 5,000 women* shortly before the end of the war,
including many from the neighbouring Ravensbrück concentration camp and other camps. Many were Jewish* women.
Today, almost nothing remains of the former camp. The visible remains are mainly buildings and streets from the period after 1945 and the use by the Soviet army.
use by the Soviet army. Foundations of the camp can only be found in a few places.

Created by the Hamburg group of the Initiative for a Memorial to the Former Uckermark Concentration Camp, the exhibition comprises 26 panels. Topics include a chronological overview of the Uckermark concentration camp, biographies of imprisoned girls and women, forensic biology investigations and its role as a later extermination site.

The exhibition can be visited free of charge in the STRAZEsaal from 6 June to 19 July on Sundays and Mondays from 2 pm to 6 pm and by appointment.