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03/29/2019
For „Girls and Boys Day 2019“, a day on which both girls and boys can sneak a peek at possible future jobs, nine girls came to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Read more
03/10/2019 Event
The 5th Future of Remembrance Forum 2019 focuses on the perspective of the heterogenous group of descendants of victims and survivors of Nazi persecution on developments within national and international remembrance culture. We will address the following topics: Read more
02/28/2019 News
Today we received sad news: Pascal Valliccioni; who had been prisoner of the Neuengamme concentration camp, passed away at the age of 92 on February 27, 2019. Last May he visited the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the liberation. He not only talked to young people about his life, above that he wrote an impressive speech about his time as a concentration camp prisoner which was read to the audience by his daughter. Read more
02/21/2019 Commemorative ceremony
Commemorative Events Organized by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on the Occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the End of the War and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps in May 2019
12/15/2018 Seasonal Newsletter
Seasonal Newsletter to the survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp, their relatives and friends of the Memorial
11/28/2018 Exhibition
"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
11/10/2018 Time witness
On Friday, November 9, 2018, Marianne Wilke visited the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial to give a speech about her childhood under the oppression of the National Socialist Regime and the consequences on her life until today. She was the child of an “arian” mother and a Jewish father and was categorized “half Jewish” an suffered nearly the same consequences as Jews did. Her parents lived in what was called a “privileged marriage”. Her father was deported to Terezin in February 1945, he survived. Many members of his family did not share that luck though and were murdered e.g. in Riga and Minsk. Read more
11/08/2018 Commemorative ceremony
Delegations from the Netherlands and France visited the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on November 2, 2018 as a part of their commemorative journey (pèlerinage). Jean-Michel Gaussot, President of Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme, Martine Letterie, President of Stichting Vriendenkring Neuengamme and Jean-Michel Clère, President of Amicale de Neuengamme et de ses Kommandos accompanied the groups. Approximately 100 people took part in the journey. Read more
10/19/2018 Time witness
In 1945, shortly after his liberation from the Neuengamme concentration camp, Aage Jørgensen wrote down his experiences during the imprisonment. These notes remained unread for over 40 years, until they were found again. On Friday, the survivor visited the Memorial with his son and a Canadian film crew. The Dane who lives in Canada today was arrested as a resistance fighter in Copenhagen in 1944, deported to Dachau and later to Neuengamme. He was a prisoner of the so-called “Scandinavian camp” until his liberation in 1945. A documentary about his life is being made at the moment. Read more
10/11/2018 Report
Daniel Fröhlich donated personal belongings of Ferdinand von Reichel, a former prisoner, to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. During a visit to the memorial, the history teacher from Ilmenau spotted his great-granduncle’s wedding ring and WW1 Iron Cross in the Memorial’s main exhibition. Read more
