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10/24/2016 Archival Research

Dr. Victor Fenyes's Legacy in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

Dr. Victor Fenyes's daughters have lent their father's legacy to the archives of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. It has thus been made available for research while remaining family property. Read more

09/08/2016 Conference, Exhibition

Call for Papers "The Curiohaus Trials in Hamburg: Nazi War Crimes Tried in British Military Courts"

From January 19 until February 8, 2017 and on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism, the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial will present the exhibition entitled "The Curiohaus Trials in Hamburg: Nazi War Crimes Tried in British Military Courts" in the Hamburg City Hall. We are currently looking for speakers to contribute to a conference which is to mark the end of the exhibition. Read more

09/05/2016 Report

Viktoria Kutdusova: “A year filled with experiences of a lifetime”

On September 1, 2015, a plane from Perm, Russia landed in Berlin Schönefeld. A young girl with two huge suitcases got off, not knowing what was awaiting her. At that moment, she was thinking about her future work at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, where she was expecting to broaden her knowledge on the German culture of remembrance and collect interesting material for her future academic work. Read more

08/31/2016 Event, Project

International Workcamp

From 13 to 27 August, the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, the Friends of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, and the Service Civil International (SCI) hosted an international work camp on the Memorial grounds. For two weeks, approximately 20 women and men between 17 and 62 years of age from Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Russia, Serbia, the Basque Country, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, and Germany lived at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Read more

07/04/2016 Exhibition, Commemorative ceremony

Remembering Those Deported from the Train Station Hannoversche Bahnhof

The inauguration of the new park Lohsepark in the Hafencity district of Hamburg was celebrated on the weekend of 9–10 July 2016. The opening was celebrated with a variety of events, and the so-called Fault Line (Fuge), which is part of the memorial denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof, was accessible to visitors for the first time. This walled walkway is a symbol of the deportation of 7,692 Jews, Sinti and Roma during the Second World War. Read more

06/27/2016 News

Future Cooperation Between the Memorial and its Russian Partners

The Deputy Director of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Dr. Oliver von Wrochem, has recently met with Dr. Sandra Dahlke, the Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Moscow and Dr. Natalia Timofeeva, the Director of the Regional Center for Oral History (Региональный центр устной истории в г. Воронеж) at the Voronezh Institute of High Technologies in Russia, where they agreed on closer cooperation in the future. Read more

06/23/2016 Exhibition

Guided audio tour

The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial has recently released a guided audio tour in English, in conjunction with its German and Russian versions. The guided audio tour leads visitors through 12 stations located throughout the Memorial and former concentration camp site, through use of audio, text, and pictures on your own smartphone. Read more

05/06/2016 Commemorative ceremony

Memorial Service Commemorating the 71st Anniversary of the End of the War and the Liberation of the Concentration Camp

The memorial services at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and the Cap Arcona Memorial in Neustadt, the forum “Future of Remembrance” and other events in this year’s commemoration programme Read more

05/05/2016 Commemorative ceremony, Report

Commemoration Ceremony at Bullenhuser Damm with a Special Guest

Grete Hamburg donates the stamp album that belonged to her brother Walter Jungleib, who was killed at Bullenhuser Damm, to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Read more

04/12/2016 Report

Great Applause After Striking Reading

„First and foremost we owe the knowledge about the atrocities committed in the Neuengamme concentration camp to the British investigations and the 35… Read more