Rubble Woman Monument Dresden

The Trümmerfrau statue stands as a bronze figure of a woman with a headscarf, holding a brick in her hands. She represents the thousands of women who cleared the ruins of Dresden after the Allied bombing raids in February nineteen forty-five. With the city reduced to millions of cubic meters of rubble, these women spent years sorting through the debris by hand to salvage usable building materials. Their work cleared the way for the reconstruction of the city center that you see today.