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07/07/2020 Event

First digital workcamp at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

At this year's international work camp "What remains? Digital Traces of Neuengamme Concentration Camp", the participants will undertake online research on the topic of remembrance and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. For the first time the annual international camp will take place digitally. Read more

06/26/2020 Archival Research

International researchers visit the archives of the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial

Therkel Straede, Professor of Contemporary History at the Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark is leading a new research project on "concentration camp ships" on the Baltic Sea. The project is dedicated to the ships that started shortly before the end of the war with several thousand prisoners on board from the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig. Some of them landed in the Bay of Lübeck, as did ships where the SS had taken prisoners from Neuengamme concentration camp. More than 300 prisoners from Stutthof reached the town of Klinkholm on the Danish island of Mön on May 5, 1945. Read more

06/24/2020 News

Place to Remember Takes Shape

First elements of the Place to Remember, Connect and Support were installed on the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial grounds in early June. Read more

05/10/2020 News

Survey results

Results of a survey conducted among 100 visitors of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in late 2019/early 2020. Read more

05/05/2020 News

Exhibitions will reopen from May 7, 2020

Due to the coronavirus outbreak our events and educational programmes will not take place until end of June. The memorials are opened again from May 7, 2020. Please note, that maybe not all exhibitions will be accessible. We are looking forward to your visit! Read more

05/03/2020 Commemorative ceremony

75th Anniversary of the Liberation

It is with a heavy heart that we must cancel the events scheduled for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation. We are making plans for a virtual commemoration: Read more

04/27/2020 News

Our friend Miloš Poljanšek passed away

Yesterday we received the message that our friend Miloš Poljanšek passed away at the age of 97 in Ljubljana. Read more

04/21/2020 News

In memoriam Gloria Hollander Lyon

Today we received the sad news that Gloria Hollander Lyon passed away on Friday, the 10th of April, at the age of 90. Read more

03/06/2020 News

Soldiers as Concentration Camp Guards

Saturday, 20 February 2021, 95-year-old German citizen Karl Friedrich Berger was deported from the USA and flown to Frankfurt by ambulance jet. In February 2020, an administrative court of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered the deportation. Berger, who had lived in Tennessee since 1959, had filed an appeal, which was rejected. Read more

03/04/2020 Archival Research

Following the Trail of the Dead Uncle

Marius Woltjer was 28 when he died in the Neuengamme concentration camp in February 1945. Less than nine months earlier he was arrested as a resistance fighter in the Netherlands. Following his imprisonment in Vught and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, he arrived in Neuengamme in October 1944 and was probably transferred on to the Husum-Schwesing satellite camp. Read more