More information about the libraries is available on the respective websites.
Focuses
Concentration Camp, esp. the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Complex (Ravensbrück Women’sCollections
ca. 15,000-20,000 collection pieces (CP)
including some belongings from contemporary witnesses
Rough translations of individual foreign language publications relevant to Ravensbrück
NS literature up until 1945 (588 CP)
Open access to ca. 4,100 CP
19 Newspapers/journals (current)
Individual journals (limited)
Services/Facilities
Consultations regarding the collection
preparation of the collection for specific subject oriented pedagogical project work and events at the location
Research recommendations
1 working space, copier, microfiche
DIN A 4 copies: 35 cents (half price for students and doctoral students)
DIN A 3 copies: 50 cents (half price for students and doctoral students)
Hours of Operation/Contact
Tues.-Fri. 9:00-4:30pm
appointment recommended
E-Mail: bibliothek(at)ravensbrueck.de
Tel: +49-(0)33093-608-21
Fax: +49-(0)33093-608-29 (zentral)
Internet: www.ravensbrueck.de
Regional train: RE 5 from Berlin Central Station to Fürstenberg/Havel train station
and then around a 3 km walk to the Ravensbrück Memorial Site
Focuses
German-Soviet/Russian RelationsCollections
Services/Facilities
Opening Hours/ Contact
Mon.-Fri., by appointment
Andrea Kamp
Zwieseler Str. 4
10318 Berlin
E-Mail: kamp@museum-karlshorst.de
Tel.: +49 (0)30/501508-43
Fax.: +49 (0)30/501508-40
Link: www.museum-karlshorst.de
Public transport: S3 (Karlshorst), Bus 296; U5 (Tierpark), Bus 296
Focuses
Historical research library on the resistance against the NS regime.
Further subjects and special collections:
National Socialism, Weimar Republic, World Wars
Conservative Revolution, Volkish religiousness
Legal Processing of the NS Dictatorship
Coming to terms with the past, remembrance and commemoration
right-wing extremism, anti-semitism
opposition and repression in the GDR
Collections
ca. 100,000 volumes
Services/Facilities
Individual working spaces
Copying resources available
Individual consultation and research assistance
Small group work can be arranged
Opening Hours/Contact
by appointment
Matthias Mann
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
Stauffenbergstraße 13-14
10785 Berlin
E-Mail: warnecke@gdw-berlin.de
Tel: 030/269950-11 or
Tel: 030/2639890-45
Fax: 030/269950-10
Internet: www.gdw-berlin.de
Bus M29 (Stop: „Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand“), Bus M48 (Stop: „Kulturforum“), U-Bahn stop: Kurfürstenstraße and U-Bahn and S-Bahn stop: Potsdamer Platz (both with a 10 min walk)
Focuses
Concentration Camp, in particularCollections
Services/Facilities
Online-Research
Hours of Operation/Contact
Tues.-Fri. 9-4:30pm
appointment recommended
Barbara Müller
Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen, Bibliothek
Straße der Nationen 22
16515 Oranienburg
E-Mail: bibliothek@gedenkstaette-sachsenhausen.de
Tel.: +49 (0)3301/200-301
Fax.: +49 (0)3301/200-302
Internet: www.stiftung-bg.de
public transportation (from Berlin-Zentrum)
Train: S-Bahn Line S 1 (Wannsee-Oranienburg) to Oranienburg station, last station; travel time from Berlin Friedrichstraße station: 45 min., runs every 20 minutes)
Regional train: RE 5 from Berlin-Hauptbahnhof Direction: Stralsund/Rostock) to Oranienburg station travel time from Berlin-Hauptbahnhof: 25 min., runs once an hour)
Regional train RB 12 from Berlin-Lichtenberg (Direction: Templin) to Oranienburg station (travel time 25 min., runs once per hour)
Bus line 804 (hourly) Direction: Malz, take it to the Memorial Site from in front of the train station or follow the signs by foot (20 min.)
PKW/Bus:
Take the A 111 autobahn, direction: Hamburg; at the Oranienburger Kreuz on the A 10 (Berliner Ring) direction Prenzlau to the Birkenwerder exit; on the B 96 to Oranienburg and follow the signs to the Memorial Site.
Focuses
NS Forced LabourCollections
Services/Facilities
Online Research
Opening Hours/Contact
by appointment
Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Schöneweide
Britzer Str. 5
12439 Berlin
Tel.: 030/6390288-0
Fax.: 030/6390288-29
E-Mail: schoeneweide@topographie.de
Internet: www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de
S-Bahn stop: Schöneweide and 10 min. walk or take bus 160/167, stop: Britzer Straße
Focuses
History of Jews in EuropeBestände
Service/Ausstattung
Online-Recherche:
Opening Hours/Contact
Mon.-Fri. 10-6pm
Gaby Müller-Oelrichs
Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Am Großen Wannsee 56-58
14109 Berlin
E-Mail: library@ghwk.de
Tel: 030/80500-120
Fax: 030/80500-127
Internet: www.ghwk.de
S-Bahn Line: S 1, S7 or the regional train to Wannsee train station, then take Bus 114 to the „Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz“ stop
Focuses
SS, Police and the Gestapo in NS
State an society in NS
Persecution and anhiliation of European Jews and other groups of victims
Second World War
Handling of issues after 1945/Culture of Remembrance
legal reprocessing of Nazi crimes
Collections
ca. 34,000 Volumes
ca. 100 national and international Periodicals
CDs/CD-ROMs
Microfiche/Film Collection as newspapers from the Nazi era databases
Services/Facilities
Access to electronic periodicals
Essays in the online library catalogue
The exisiting media are structured systematically
Help and advice for research
Visual History archive from the USC Shoa Foundation
Possible to check something out over the weekend
Individual and group working spaces
New acquisitions list on the Homepage
Online-Research
General Catalogue of Memorial Libraries: www.aggb-katalog.de
Catalogue of the Topography of Terror Foundation: www.topographie.de/opac
GBV www.topographie.de
Opening Hours/Contact
Mon.-Fri. 10-5pm
Irmela Roschmann-Steltenkamp
Topographie des Terrors
Niederkirchnerstr. 8
10963 Berlin
E-Mail: bibliothek@topographie.de
Tel: +49 (0)30/254509-23
Fax: +49 (0)30/254509-99
Internet: www.topographie.de
U+S-Bhf. Potsdamer Platz, Anhalter Bahnhof, Kochstraße