National Resistance Museum to Host Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp Exhibition

On Saturday 8 March 2025, Luxembourg’s Minister for Culture, Eric Thill, will inaugurate the temporary exhibition “Resistance. Repression. Deportation: Women of France and Luxembourg at the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, 1942 - 1945” at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights in Esch-sur-Alzette, at 11:00.

The temporary exhibition, in French and German, will be open to the public from Saturday 8 March (International Women’s Day) until Monday 15 September 2025. The exhibition opening hours are 10:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Sunday.

As the museum explained, between January 1942 and September 1944, 9,000 women were deported from France and Luxembourg to the German Reich as part of a politically motivated repression. Around 7,000 women were sent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp in northern Germany. Most of them were resistance fighters. The exhibition highlights the life stories and experiences of these women, as well as their different social and national backgrounds. It shows how resistance and persecution were shaped by traditional gender roles. Through their actions, some women also challenged these roles. Selected biographies highlight the multiple facets of resistance, detention and survival.

The exhibition marks the beginning of a series of historical and artistic exhibitions, "Women in Conflict", illustrating the global struggle of women in the conflicts of today and yesterday, which will take place from March 2025 to September 2026, at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights.

On selected evenings, from March to September 2025, discussions, roundtable events, theatre and film screening events, in French and German, will take place.

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