Those living in Hohenleipisch have a christmas and new year gift wrapped together. The camp is finally closing down in 2025!

To refresh your memory, here a short description of the Hohenleipisch lager:

The Lager is extremely isolated. It’s 160 km south of Berlin in southern Brandenburg, on the border of the state of Saxony. It’s in the middle of a forest, on the edge of a road where cars speed up at 70km/h. There are no sidewalks and the only way to get to the village of Hohenleipisch is by public bus which runs only hourly. The residents of the Lager explained vividly their segregation in an open letter demanding the Lager’s closure, published shortly after Rita’s death in 2019. A video filmed around the same time by collective SCRATCH also visualises this well.

For details, please see our article: Hohenleipisch Report – Women In Exile & Friends . The authorities knew all along that the place is isolated and Rita`s ghost calling for justice is inhabiting all over.

Our wish and prayer is that women and children moving out can be accommodated in dignified places they can call home. In apartments where they can intergrate and be part of the communities around them, instead of the bushes and forest which have been surrounding them.

Again we reiterate, that it is possible to accommodate refugees in flats and ask all those who support us in our fight of “No lager for Women and children, Abolish all lagers” to continue their support because it is possible to end racist policies. Now more than ever when racism and discrimination is becoming a norm more than the exception.