Memorial Site KZ Uckermark
The Uckermark youth concentration camp for girls and young women was established in 1942 by inmates of the women's camp Ravensbrück. Until 1945, about 1200 girls and young women, stigmatized as "asocial," were imprisoned there. In January 1945, a large part of the camp was converted into a place of extermination for prisoners from Ravensbrück and other camps, where approximately 5000 women were murdered by April. The history of this camp is still poorly researched today; those imprisoned there remained largely unnoticed and without public recognition for a long time.
Only in 1995 did survivors, relatives, and supporters succeed in making the site publicly visible again. Starting in 1996, volunteers initiated the first construction camps, during which excavations took place in 1997 and 2001, revealing the foundations of the youth concentration camp. These activities even prevented the construction of a planned bypass road over the site. Volunteers organized annual construction camps as well as the first memorial service in 2005. In 2009, thanks to the "100×100" campaign, a memorial stone was erected – a central wish of the survivors. In 2012, after years of effort by many activists, the military structures were removed, and the site was taken over by the state of Brandenburg, making the place well accessible for the first time. In 2020, a new bilingual exhibition was opened.
