Annedore Leber, the widow of the murdered resistance activist Julius Leber, United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Willy Brandt, governing mayor of West Berlin, visiting Plötzensee Memorial Center in 1962.
Memorial ceremony by Berlin high-school students for those murdered after July 20, 1944, held on July 6, 1966.
Memorial ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the first executions of Red Orchestra members at Plötzensee Memorial Center. The speech was held by the former prison chaplain Harald Poelchau on December 22, 1967.
Federal President Gustav Heinemann speaking at the memorial ceremony held by the West Berlin senate and the Ring of Political Youth on the 25th anniversary of July 20, 1944 at Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 19, 1969.
The German War Graves Commission laying a wreath on Remembrance Day, November 18, 1972.
Prayer service in the former execution room at Plötzensee Memorial Center, with Pastor Bringfried Naumann, Bishop Hanns Lilje, and Father Odilo Braun OP (left to right) on July 20, 1973. Hanns Lilje and Odilo Braun were imprisoned together after the attempted coup of July 20, 1944.
Honoring the Czech resistance activist Julius Fučík with representatives of the military mission of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, February 23, 1978.
Memorial ceremony with the governing mayor of West Berlin, Richard von Weizsäcker (center left), and the chairman of the Berlin Jewish Community, Heinz Galinski (center right), July 20, 1982.
Memorial ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, with (right to left) Heinz Schröder, Jesse Jackson, and Vladimir Gall, May 8, 1985.
Israeli president Chaim Herzog laying a wreath at the commemorative wall in Plötzensee, April 9, 1987.
Memorial ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Christian resistance activists, with Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (left) and (front row, right to left:) Federal Minister for Labor and Social Order Norbert Blüm, and CDU Secretary-General Peter Hintze, January 23, 1995.
Participants in the memorial ceremony for the anniversary of July 20, 1944 included (front row, from right to left): Parliamentary President Annemarie Renger, Berlin Senator for Labor and Women Christine Bergmann, Chairman of the Memorial Foundation July 20, 1944 Dieter Thomas, Federal Minister for Regional Development, Construction, and Urban Planning Klaus Töpfer; in the center: the president of Berlin’s city parliament, Hanna-Renate Laurien, July 20, 1995.
A delegation with the Tatar deputy prime minister Zilya Valeeva honoring murdered Tartar resistance activists at Plötzensee Memorial Center, February 2002.
Memorial ceremony at Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 20, 2007. Front row, from left: the head of the German Resistance Memorial Center, Johannes Tuchel, survivor and author Inge Deutschkron, survivor and author Renate Bethge, Federal Constitutional Court judge Reinhard Gaier, Brandenburg Minister of Economic Affairs Ulrich Junghans, the president of Berlin’s city parliament, Walter Momper, chairman of the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944 Axel Smend, the governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.
Memorial ceremony held by the German federal government and the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944 at Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 20, 2015. Along with several hundred others, participants included (left to right): Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, the vice-president of Berlin’s city parliament, Andreas Gram, Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, Robert von Steinau-Steinrück und Axel Smend from the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944, the chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions, Reiner Hoffmann, the president of the Federal Assembly and prime minister of the state of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, German Government Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs Monika Grütters, and the vice-president of the Bundestag, Claudia Roth.
Axel Smend from the board of the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944 commemorating the dead at Plötzensee Memorial Center, July 20, 2020.