Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is not permitted for children under the age of Babies in strollers or carriers will not be permitted to enter. Oh, my brother, once there will be the day when no roll call will keep us! Gates will be opened wide and the great, the free world will embrace us. And then we concentration camp inmates will walk on wide streets.
But the others are waiting for us. And whoever sees us, sees the deep lines written on our faces by the suffering, Sees the signs of our mental and bodily torture, which will stay with us forever. And whoever sees us will see the rage flashing bright from our eyes, Sees the rejoicing in freedom deeply imbedded in our hearts. And then we march in rows, the last, huge column of people, And the road leads to light and sun.
Oh, brother, are you also imagining that day, you also must think: The day will be here soon! During the Holocaust, Jewish women were sent to seven different concentration camps across Europe. It lies on the banks of the Havel, near the picturesque Schwedtsee lake.
The camp was opened in and was designated for the internment female political prisoners. The camp was initially small: at the end of it had only 2, inmates and by the end of , 11, As the war drew to a close the camp turned into a central transit station for prisoners from a variety of different populations. In , more than 70, women would pass through the camp, most of them staying there for a relatively short amount of time.
Medical experiments were conducted in the camp, mostly on Polish political prisoners and gypsies. At the end of March , the camp began to be evacuated. Some 25, inmates and inmates from nearby camps were marched in the direction of Mecklenburg while thousands of German prisoners were released on the spot. Over the years, women from forty different countries would pass through the camp. They were sorted into separate groups based on the grounds for their arrest, and members of different groups could be distinguished by the colored cloth triangle they wore.
