Remembrance
After the chaos and destruction of World War II, the Rosenstrasse protest was all but forgotten in Germany. Rosenstrasse 2-4, the building where the prisoners had been held, was destroyed by an Allied bomb near the end of the war, erasing the last physical landmark of the event. It was not until the 1980's that historians began to investigate the event and bring it back into the public eye. The Rosenstrasse protest is now commemorated yearly in Germany, with 2013 marking the 70th anniversary.
The two Litfass columns are not the only memorials of the Rosenstrasse protest in Berlin. In a park not far from the site of the protest is a sculpture entitled “Block der Frauen (Block of Women).” Ingeborg Hunzinger, an East German sculptor, created the piece as a memorial to the women who took part in the Rosenstrasse protest. The scultpture was designed in the mid-1980s, but the Berlin Senate did not approve the design for several years. It was not until 1995 that the sculpture was finally erected. “Block der Frauen” features several groups of protesting and mourning women, with an inscription on the back that reads:
“The strength of civil disobedience, the vigor of love overcomes the violence of dictatorship; Give us our men back; Women were standing here, defeating death; Jewish men were free.”