"The executions need to be carried out discreetly in the nearest camp"

A cat­a­log was cre­at­ed for the exhi­bi­tion, con­ceived and real­ized by chezweitz, which presents the series of images in a com­plete and high-qual­i­ty man­ner. The cat­a­log doc­u­ments all pho­tos and texts from the exhi­bi­tion, which was offi­cial­ly opened on Novem­ber 6, 2016. Michael Roth, Min­is­ter of State for Europe at the Fed­er­al For­eign Office, as well as the diplo­mat­ic rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Ukraine, the Repub­lic of Belarus, and the Repub­lic of Kaza­khstan, as well as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Russ­ian Embassy,​were present at the opening.

The press offi­cer of the Bran­den­burg Memo­ri­als Foun­da­tion, Dr. Horst Sef­er­ens, over­saw the con­cept of the cat­a­log, which we devel­oped joint­ly, until its com­ple­tion in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with Agnes Ohm.

This book is intend­ed to con­tribute to ensur­ing that the mass mur­der of approx­i­mate­ly 13,000 Sovi­et pris­on­ers of war in the Sach­sen­hausen con­cen­tra­tion camp between Sep­tem­ber 1 and Novem­ber 16, 1941, which has so far remained in the ​“shad­ow of mem­o­ry,” receives an appro­pri­ate and dig­ni­fied place in the col­lec­tive memory.