Block of Women sculpture, Berlin, Germany

Woman reaching for her imprisoned husband, from the Block der Frauen or Block of Women sculpture, by Ingeborg Hunzinger, erected 1995, Rosenstrasse, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The sculpture is a memorial to the Jewish women's protest in 1943 against the arrest of their husbands by the SS, and resulted in their release. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Contained in galleries: Berlin

Woman reaching for her imprisoned husband, from the Block der Frauen or Block of Women sculpture, by Ingeborg Hunzinger, erected 1995, Rosenstrasse, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The sculpture is a memorial to the Jewish women's protest in 1943 against the arrest of their husbands by the SS, and resulted in their release. Picture by Manuel Cohen