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01/19/2022 News

Subcamp Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen

We have added another satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp to the list of satellite camps. We have based this on recent research by the Drütte Concentration Camp Memorial and Documentation Centre. This subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp was located west of the Gebhardshagen district in Salzgitter in the summer of 1944. Read more

09/03/2021 Archival Research

Valuable historical photos for research

The archive has received historical photos from the 1940s, taken in Bremen, Hamburg and Belarus. One collection shows concentration camp prisoners from the Bremen-Neuenland sub-camp clearing rubble. Another collection appears to have come from the possession of a member of Police Rifle Regiment 31 from Altona and shows photos from Altona and Belarus. Read more

09/11/2019 Archival Research

Mail from Lodz

The Memorial has recently received a package from the Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych in Lodz, Poland. Wojciech Zrodlak, a museum employee, had discovered a bundle of documents in a cabinet and sent them to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. The documents were presumably donated to the museum in the 1980s by Sergiusz Jaskiewicz, a former prisoner of the Kaltenkirchen satellite camp. In 1985 Jaskiewicz became the representative of the Polish Amicale Internationale de Neuengamme in Lodz and since then maintained contact with former prisoners all over the world. Read more

07/08/2019 Exhibition

Again on display: Exhibition "A City and Its Concentration Camp"

"A City and Its Concentration Camp. Prisoners of the Neuengamme concentration camp in wartime Hamburg, 1943-1945" is the title of an exhibition by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial which will be shown from 8 July to 23 August 2019 in addition to our main exhibition. Read more

11/28/2018 Exhibition

A City and Its Concentration Camp. An exhibition at Hamburg City Hall

"A City and Its Concentration Camp. Prisoners of the Neuengamme concentration camp in wartime Hamburg, 1943-1945" is the title of an exhibition by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial which will be shown courtesy of the Hamburg Parliament at Hamburg City Hall from 17 January to 10 February 2019 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

08/25/2017 Report

In Search for His Uncle’s Graves

What motivates a man of over 60, from Eastern Ukraine, to travel to Northern Germany for his first trip abroad? Read more