Ravensbrück Memorial and Remembrance Centre

The Nazi era brought dark years to Schwedtsee. Inmates of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp were ordered to set up a camp in the village of Ravensbrück, directly adjacent to Fürstenberg/Havel, in 1938/39, which went down in history as the largest women's concentration camp in the German Reich. In 1942, the Uckermark youth protection camp for female adolescents was set up in the immediate vicinity.

Up to 70 subcamps belonged to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Between 1939 and 1945, a total of about 132,000 women and children, 20,000 men and 1,000 female youths from 40 nations were registered.
The camp was liberated by Soviet troops on 30 April 1945, after many prisoners had previously been sent on the so-called death march. In 1959, the camp was inaugurated as the National Memorial of the GDR. The former commandant's office houses the permanent exhibition, which was redesigned in 2013.

The complex belongs to the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation.