The Berlin-Karlshorst Museum is located in the former officers’ mess in Berlin, where the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht was signed on May 8, 1945, marking the end of the Second World War in Europe. The museum is dedicated to the history of the Second World War with a special focus on German-Soviet relations. It displays a variety of exhibits, including historical documents, photographs and military artifacts that illustrate the horrific events and suffering during the war.
Since mid-2020, the museum has been working on digitizing its collection, which already comprises around 17.000 objects. One of the digitized exhibits is a 155×152.5 cm woolen blanket donated to the museum by Ludmila Romanenko in 2007. As a child, she was deported to the Azaryčy camps, where she used this blanket to keep warm. After her liberation, she kept the blanket, knowing that it had probably saved her life.
Source: Museum Berlin-Karlshorst: „208709: Decke von Ljudmila Romanenko, Belarus, 1940er Jahre“. Access via: berlin.museum-digital.de/object/81818, 05.10.2023 (last checked: 30.06.2024).
