The liberation of the Auschwitz death camp 76 years ago on January 27, 1945 did not mean the end of persecution, exploitation, oppression and murder of tens of thousands of people who continued to be imprisoned in concentration camps like Neuengamme. Especially in the last months of the war, thousands of prisoners died. We commemorated the suffering of the prisoners in an online event on Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism, coinciding with other memorials at sites of Nazi crimes. Read more

We would like to take the opportunity of this year-end circular letter to thank you for all the support you have shown us in so many different ways throughout this peculiar year. We also want to give you a brief review of all the topics that have kept us busy over the past twelve months. Read more

The Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme is pleased to introduce two new staff members for the Reflections blog. Since mid-November, Gyde Sönksen and Jonas Reinhardt have been supporting the Reflections blog and its social media presence as student volunteers. Read more

How do former places of violence become places of historical-political education? What challenges and problems, but also opportunities and innovations does the transformation of former sites of violence into memorials offer? Are there different challenges in different countries? We are currently discussing these and other questions in a tri-national seminar cycle with multipliers from Albania, France and Germany. Read more

Today we received the sad news that our friend Haim Liss had passed away on November 14, 2020 at the age of 89 in Israel. Read more

Today we received the sad news that our friend Yevgeny Malychin passed away early in the morning at the age of 96 in Kharkov, Ukraine. Read more

On November 13 2020, the "Space to Remember, Connect and Support" was ceremonially opened on the grounds of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. From now on, relatives can design posters for their relatives imprisoned at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. The „Space to Remember“ consists of an on-site presentation in the form of printing plates, a billboard, a printing workshop, and a website with a digital archive. Read more

The annual International Workcamp at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial could, like so many planned events this year, not take place in the desired format. Instead of completely cancelling the event, a new medium was tried out, resulting in the first ever Online-Workcamp. This digital version was also organized and conceived in cooperation with the Service Civil International (SCI). Read more

Relatives of former prisoners of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp have developed the “Space to Remember, Connect and Support” as an active and expanding international memorial site created by and for the relatives of former prisoners of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. With individually-created posters, they tell the story of their persecuted family members. They invite others to reproduce the posters on-site and thus keep the memory alive. There will be a celebratory opening for this new, active memorial site on November 13, 2020. Read more

Each year the Future of Remembrance Forum offers relatives of former concentration camp prisoners and victims of Nazi persecution, memorial site staff, and interested participants the opportunity to get to know one another and to exchange their views. The 6th Forum is to be held at Neuengamme Concentration Camp from 11 to 13 November 2020 and will revolve around the ways in which the memory of Nazism is reflected in the media. Read more