 She was also, briefly, a member of the supervisory board of the Berlin .During the Nazi years the Ravensbrück concentration camp had contained more female inmates than any of the other concentration camps in Germany, and the political establishment in the new East German state, always keen to highlight the contrast between the brutality of the Nazi dictatorship with their own political approach, during the 1950s developed the concentration camp site into a memorial and exhibition of the horrors it had witnessed.In 1955 Emmi Handke became vice-president of the International Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Committee, a role which she filled actively till 1993, voted in as general secretary of the Concentration Camp Committee in 1963, while also remaining energetic in her commitment to the DFD.