The Stasi remand prison Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
From 1951 to 1989, the current memorial was used as a remand prison of the Ministry for State Security of the former GDR. Thousands of victims of political persecution in the former GDR were locked up here under inhuman conditions, submitted to criminal identification and perfidious interrogations by Stasi officers. Regime critics became victims, just like political opponents who openly criticized the SED dictatorship or GDR citizens whose attempt to escape into the freedom which they
had longed for had failed.
After the peaceful revolution in 1989 and the reunification that followed, former prisoners spoke up for the remand prisoners being preserved as a memorial. It should commemorate the political persecution in the former GDR and the inhuman prison conditions in Hohenschönhausen. Since July 2000, the memorial has been a public-law foundation. In the first half of 2009 alone, more than 146,000 people visited the former Stasi prison – thousands of youngsters were amongst them. For further information
please visit: www.stiftung-hsh.de.
After the peaceful revolution in 1989 and the reunification that followed, former prisoners spoke up for the remand prisoners being preserved as a memorial. It should commemorate the political persecution in the former GDR and the inhuman prison conditions in Hohenschönhausen. Since July 2000, the memorial has been a public-law foundation. In the first half of 2009 alone, more than 146,000 people visited the former Stasi prison – thousands of youngsters were amongst them. For further information
please visit: www.stiftung-hsh.de.