Berlin · Mitte · Germany

Block der Frauen

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easy

8/10

best: morning, afternoon

sobering, inspiring, historic

A local would say...

In 1943, Berlin wives stood in the street and shouted until the Gestapo blinked — this sculpture marks the spot where courage was enough.

Inge Hunzinger's 1994 sandstone sculpture standing in Rosenstrasse on the site where German women peacefully but tenaciously protested the planned deportation of their Jewish husbands in 1943 — a rare act of public defiance against the Nazi regime. The monument honours an episode that mainstream history long overlooked.