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title: "Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial"
type: place
url: "https://langenachtdermuseen.berlin/en/place/gedenkstaette-berlin-hohenschoenhausen-7ddb493e/"
language: "en"
generated_at: 2026-10-27T21:53:20Z
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address: "Genslerstraße 66, 13055 Berlin"
latitude: 52.541628886266
longitude: 13.500145298196
opens: "17:00"
closes: "01:00"
website: "https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/en/"
image: "https://langenachtdermuseen.berlin/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240415091411371-1024x576.jpg"
---

# Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

History

Communist dictatorship

Hohenschönhausen

# Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

Stasi prison

Waiting times on site

© Thomas Weber, webrock-foto.de

[View on Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/?q=52.541628886266,13.500145298196)

- Genslerstraße 66, 13055 Berlin
- Open from 17:00 until 01:00
- The bistro in the memorial complex is open.

### Accessibility

The permanent exhibition “Imprisoned in Hohenschönhausen” in the main building is completely barrier-free. There are a few steps to overcome on the way to the former prison buildings, which is why the entire site is not wheelchair-accessible. The tours including a visit to the kitchen and the prison hospital are not wheelchair accessible.

Detailed information on barrier-free access can be found here: [Further information](https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/en/visit/accessibility)

- Elevators accessible to wheelchairs
- WC accessible to wheelchairs

### About the museum

Like hardly any other place in Germany, this memorial in a former Stasi prison is linked to the history of political persecution in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Between 1945 and 1989, more than 20,000 people were imprisoned here. Today, former political prisoners and historians give tours of the facility.

[Open website of the place](https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/en/)