Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten

The Brandenburg Memorials Foundation is a legal foundation under public law, established in 1993 by the State of Brandenburg and the Federal Republic of Germany. It encompasses seven memorial sites at historical locations of persecution and tyranny in Brandenburg (including Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, euthanasia murders in Brandenburg-Havel, Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary, death march in the Belower Forest, Lieberose/Jamlitz, and Leistikowstraße Potsdam). The foundation's mission is the preservation and safeguarding of structural relics, the conservation of material and archival evidence, as well as their scholarly exploration, documentation, and accessibility for research, education, and the public. It commemorates terror, war, and tyranny, promotes engagement with Nazi crimes, Soviet occupation, and political persecution in the GDR, and enables victims and their survivors to honor their memory with dignity.

The Brandenburg Memorials Foundation is committed to remembering the victims of National Socialist and Soviet totalitarian regimes, researching, documenting, and conveying the history of concentration camps, Soviet special camps, and political criminal justice. It aims to encourage the general public to engage critically with these periods, develop educational and outreach formats, and preserve living memorial sites to counteract forgetting and suppression.

The foundation's offerings are aimed at a broad audience: survivors and relatives of persecution, family members, historically interested citizens, students and teachers, national and international researchers, as well as civil society initiatives. It addresses visitors of all ages and diverse backgrounds who wish to engage with the topics of remembrance, human rights, democracy education, and contemporary historical research.