Lange Nacht der Museen Berlin 31.8.2019

Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

How to get here

Bus 256, N56 Große-Leege-Straße/Freienwalder Straße

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Short Facts

Built
1939 as large kitchen of the Nazi People’s Welfare organisation; repurposed in 1945 as central Soviet remand prison and rebuilt in 1960 as a Stasi prison with more than 200 cells
Opened
1994 as a memorial
Permanent exhibition space
700 m²
What to see
in the exhibition: photos, letters, objects and media stations dealing with imprisonment in Hohenschönhausen In the former Stasi prison: cells, interrogation rooms, prison hospital and the “Grotewohl-Express” (carriage used to transport prisoners between prisons in the GDR)

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