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| Name: | Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück |
| Translated Name: | Ravensbrück Memorial Museum |
| Affiliation: | |
| ADDRESS: | Strasse der Nationen
Fürstenberg 16798 |
| COUNTRY: | Germany |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | +(49-330) 933-92-41
+(49-330) 933-83-70 |
| FAX: | +(49-330) 933-83-97 |
| EMAIL: | Information Not Available. |
| WEBSITE: | http://www.ravensbrueck.de |
| OPERATING HOURS: | N/A |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Primary Contact:
Ms. Monika Herzog
Phone: +(49-330) 933-92-41
Sigrid Jacobeit, Dr. Habil.
Phone: +(49-330) 933-92-41
Primary Contact:
Ms. Loretta Walz
Phone: +(49-30) 79-70-27-53
Email: Loretta.Walz@t-online.de
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | At the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, the SS imprisoned over 130,000 women and children; and approximately 20,000 men. Today, the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum keeps records and encourages remembrance and research. It was founded in 1959.
The former concentration camp was used by the Soviet army following the end of World War II. With the withdrawal of the Soviet military from the former concentration camp terrain, the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum became part of the newly founded Brandenburg Memorials Foundation in 1993. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebration of the liberation, the camp entrance area was open to the public in 1995.
In recent years, two long-term and more than 200 special exhibitions have been shown. Research has intensified, educational programs have been re-designed, and the collections department has been enlarged.
Since 1993, the holdings of the Museum have expanded and are better catalogued than in previous years. |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | The Ravensbrück Memorial Museum is in the process of building up a collection of audio and video testimonies of survivors from the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp (1939-1945). The archive also holds almost 1000 reports of survivors, primarily written between 1945-1955.
The Ravensbrück Memorial Museum has worked together with filmmaker Loretta Walz to produce interviews with witnesses who were imprisoned in Ravensbrück. The video interviews are life stories of former female prisoners from Ravensbrück, Lichtenburg and Moringen. When possible, in-depth interviews are conducted on the territory of the former Ravensbrück camp.
As of October, 2001, there were about 130 interviews in all; 120 with women, ten with men.
The video interviews of female ex-prisoners from the Ravensbrück concentration camp began in 1980. They mainly include German women. After the collapse of the government of the German Democratic Republic in 1989, a new series of interviews was conducted with women from the former East Germany, as well as Poland, who had been subjected to medical experiments in Ravensbrück. The most recent interviews include those with women who worked in the "Siemens Camp" in Ravensbrück run by the company of the same name.
More interviews are planned with Czech and Slovenian women, as well as those from other European countries. |
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| Collect Holocaust Oral Histories: | No. |
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| Interview Guidelines: | Information Not Available. |
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| Additional Information: | In the first years, about five interviews per year were conducted. The number has increased since then. |
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| Project Complete: | No. |
| Year of First Interview: | 1979 |
| Year of Last Interview: | Ongoing. |
| Interviews Per Year: | ca. 30 (in 2001) |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | 1-6 |
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| RECORDING METHOD | |
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| Audio: | No. |
| Number of Audio Hours: | N/A |
| Total Number of Audio Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of Audiocassette Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats: | N/A |
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| Video: | Yes. |
| Number of Video Hours: | 500 |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | 130 |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | 100 |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | 30 |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | No. |
| Number of Film interviews: | No. |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Closed. Information Not Available. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | In part, the interviews are available at the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum. The collection has not been completely catalogued and for this reason is not yet public. |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | N/A |
| Access Fee: | Information Not Available. |
| Research Services: | No. |
| Research Fee: | N/A |
| Research Services Requirements: | N/A |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
| Publications: | N/A |
| Classrooms: | N/A |
| Public Lectures: | N/A |
| Documentaries: | N/A |
| How To Obtain permission: | N/A |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| On-Site Equipment | |
| Audio: | Information Not Available. |
| Video: | Information Not Available. |
| Users Can Bring Their Own: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Finding Aids | |
| Guide to Collection Available: | In development. |
| Published: | N/A |
| Guide Cost: | N/A |
| Address to Obtain Guide: | N/A |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | N/A |
| Video: | 50 |
| Available for photocopying: | 50 |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | No. |
| Available for Photocopying: | No. |
| Available on Disk: | No. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Indices | |
| Tapes Indexed: | No. |
| Transcripts Indexed: | No. |
| Summaries Indexed: | No. |
| Indices Available for Photocopying: | No. |
| Indices Available on Disk: | No. |
| Other: | No. |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | No. |
| Available on Computer: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| MARC Format: | N/A |
| MARC Format Type: | N/A |
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| Internet Resources | |
| Web Address: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | Information Not Available. |
| Summaries: | Information Not Available. |
| Catalog: | Information Not Available. |
| Indices: | Information Not Available. |
| Interview Clips: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Bibliographic Information | |
| Belong to: | No. |
| OCLC: | N/A |
| RLIN: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| Plan to Join: | Information Not Available. |
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| Loan or Purchase | |
| Material Available Through Interlibrary Loan: | Information Not Available. |
| Loan by other collection: | Information Not Available. |
| Loan Fee: | Information Not Available. |
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| DETAIL ABOUT COLLECTION CONTENT | |
| Demographic Information about Interviewees: | |
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| Total Number: | 130 |
| Total Female: | 120 |
| Total Male: | 10 |
| No Data: | Information Not Available. |
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Female |
Male |
Total |
Other Information |
| Jews: | 5 | | 5 | Yes. |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | 2 | | 2 | Yes. |
| Political Prisoners: | 90 | 5 | 95 | Yes. |
| Prisoners of War: | 5 | | 5 | Yes. |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | 5 | 2 | 7 | Yes. |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Resisters: | 12 | | 12 | Yes. |
| Partisans: | 8 | | 8 | Yes. |
| Rescuers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugees: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Liberators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Prosecutors: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | | | | Information Not Available. |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Focus of Collection: | |
| Ghetto(s) | | |
| Camp(s) |  | Ravensbrück, Lichtenburg, Moringen. |
| Geographic Area(s) | | West Germany and Eastern Europe. |
| Experience(s) | | |
| Survivor Group(s) | | Primarily Women |
| Other | | |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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