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Participatory Reading on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

27. January 2026 \u2013 all day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Ravensbr\u00fcck Memorial Site invites you to its annual participatory reading on 27 January 2026. This year’s focus is on the \u201814 f 13\u2019 murder campaign in the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp. The memorial day commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp by the Red Army in 1945. For several years now, the Ravensbr\u00fcck Memorial has organized a joint reading on this day from the memories and testimonies of survivors of the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Each year, the event is dedicated to a specific historical topic or a particular phase of the camp’s history. The script is always based on the focus of the memorial service in the German Bundestag. Both individual stories and the collective experiences of those imprisoned in Ravensbr\u00fcck are to bear witness in the readings. The aim is to present the effects of persecution and prison conditions from constantly changing perspectives, to allow voices that have received little attention to date to have their say and also to highlight moments of resistance and solidarity among the prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1941, the SS leadership decided to extend the murder of the sick, known as \u2018euthanasia,\u2019 to concentration camp prisoners. This first centrally planned murder campaign against prisoners was given the code name \u201814 f 13\u2019 after its file number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From late 1941 to early 1942, SS camp doctors and external experts selected around 1,600 women and 300 men for murder at the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp. In addition to the sick and those unfit for work, Jewish prisoners and some politically unpopular individuals and those stigmatised as \u2018anti-social\u2019 were also singled out. Between February and April 1942, they were transported to the \u2018euthanasia\u2019 facility in Bernburg and murdered with carbon monoxide gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The script is based on a collage of texts from memoirs, personal accounts and archive materials. Former prisoners themselves have their say in letters, diary excerpts, statements from post-war trials and other personal documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The readings invite all interested parties to join together in making the voices of the victims and survivors heard. The event offers an opportunity to pause together and actively take responsibility for remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n