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07/03/2015 Project, Exhibition
An art installation created by the Anna Warburg School in collaboration with Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and Friends of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Read more
05/20/2015 Commemorative ceremony, Conference, Project
One hundred people from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Denmark, Germany, Israel, the US and South Africa attended the “Future of Remembrance” forum on 5–6 May 2015. It was an opportunity to come together for children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of former concentration camp prisoners, including those who were persecuted for being Jewish or for political reasons as well as former slave labourers from Eastern Europe. For some of them, it was the first time to participate in such discussions. Everyone agreed that it was important to make the many different family backgrounds more apparent. Read more
05/07/2015 Commemorative ceremony, Report
Fifty-four survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps came from all over Europe, Israel, and the US together with their families to attend the celebrations at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial commemorating the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camp 70 years ago. Read more
04/29/2015 Commemorative ceremony, Report
Last week young people from five countries met in Hamburg to remember the children from Bullenhuser Damm and to think about the future of remembrance. Read more
03/04/2015 Commemorative ceremony
Events to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the war at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in may 2015 Read more
02/25/2015 Conference, Report
We would like to draw your attention to the conference “The Victims and Places of Reprisals in Occupied Europe”, which will be organized by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in cooperation with the Research Center for Contemporary History Hamburg and the Institute for the History of the German Jews. It will take place from April 28th until April 30th, 2015 at the Research Center for Contemporary History Hamburg. Read more
02/18/2015 Report, Archival Research
The Hoffmann family handed over the documents and objects which belonged to Hermann Hoffmann to the Neuengamme Memorial Site Archive last Friday. In 1936, Oberlandesgericht (Higher Regional Court) convicted Hermann Hoffmann of illegal resistance activities in cooperation with the Communist Party of Germany after which he was brought to the Fuhlsbüttel penitentiary. Read more
02/09/2015 Report
Hey, my name is Zoia and I come from Perm, Russia. Since November 2014 I’ve been volunteering at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Read more
01/13/2015 Time witness
On January 15, 2015 Janusz Kahl will be one of three contemporary witnesses with whom Katharina Hertz-Eichenrode will talk about the massacres in Meensel Kiezegem, Murat, Putten and Warsaw during WW II Read more
01/05/2015 Exhibition
An exhibit of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial with support from the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft (Parliament of Hamburg).
Opening times:
January 15th till February 2nd 2015
Monday–friday: 10–18:00
Saturday and Sunday: 10–13:00
Foyer of the City Hall Hamburg, Entrance free.
