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The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (German: KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme), opened in 2008, is located in Hamburg-Bergedorf at Jean-Dolidier-Weg 75, named for a French activist integral to the creation of the memorial, and renamed from Camp (German: Lager) road.
Jan 27, 2022 · 600-700 concentration camp prisoners remained in the main camp under SS orders to destroy all incriminating documentation, dismantle many areas of the camp, and tidy the site. On 2 May 1945,...
The SS established Neuengamme in December 1938 as a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. It was located on the grounds of an abandoned brickworks on the banks of the Dove-Elbe, a tributary of the Elbe River in the Hamburg suburb Neuengamme, in northern Germany.
This year's “Future of Remembrance” Forum will be held on November 13-14, 2024 at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. read more
In Neuengamme concentration camp and its more than 85 satellite camps, which were established all over northern Germany for construction projects and armaments production, prisoners had to do hard labour for the war economy. Living and working conditions were murderous.
Neuengamme was one of northwest Germany’s largest concentration camps, and here accommodation, nutrition and sanitation were insufficient or nonexistent at best and deadly at worst, with guards being rewarded for brutal handling of prisoners.
Located in south-east Hamburg, Neuengamme was the largest concentration camp in north-west Germany from 1938 to 1945. More than 100,000 people from all over Europe were imprisoned in the main camp and over 85 satellite camps.
Neuengamme was a German concentration camp to the south of Hamburg, from 1938 to 1945. [1] Neuengamme was a village located about twenty kilometres south-east of Hamburg, where a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp had been established since 1938.
Sep 11, 2024 · Neuengamme-Ring, a complex of Nazi German concentration camps situated in marshy country near Neuengamme, a suburb of the port city of Hamburg, Germany. The first camp was established in 1940 to provide slave labour for local armaments industries, and beginning in 1942 annexes to the camp were set.
Feb 20, 2024 · In June 1940, the SS established Neuengamme as an independent concentration camp. Prisoners were forced to build the barracks, guard towers, and fences. The prisoner population increased immediately, and by the end of 1940, around 3,000 prisoners were housed there.
