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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

04/07/2016 Report

Successful book presentation in the state library Hamburg: Consequences of perpetratorship of parents and grandparents on their descendants

The focus of an event by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and the State Library of Hamburg on April 5, 2016 were the disputs and discussion within the families of former perpetrators. Read more

03/31/2016 Project, Archival Research

Two New Research Projects at the Centre for Historical Studies

In March of this year, we welcomed Dr Susann Lewerenz and Dr Claudia Bade to our team at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, where they are working on externally funded research projects. Dr Lewerenz is researching the forms, functions and effects of racism in colonialism and National Socialism, while Dr Bade's research project concerns military justice in the city during the war, with a focus on verdicts, sentences and people involved in the courts of the replacement training army in Hamburg and Northern Germany from 1939 to 1945. Read more

03/16/2016 Commemorative ceremony

Forum „Future of Remembrance“: 30.4.-2.5.2016

During the Forum "Future of Remembrance" descendants of former concentration camp prisoners, members of survivors associations, Neuengamme Memorial staff and organizations supporting its work as well as young adults and other interested individuals can discuss questions regarding the future of remembering the time of National Socialism. Read more

03/02/2016 Commemorative ceremony

Commemorative Events in May

Commemorative Events organized by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on the Occasion of the 71. Anniversary of the End of the Second World War and the Liberation of Concentration Camps. Read more

02/24/2016 Time witness

Eye-witness talk with Hans Gaertner

Today, Holocaust survivor Dr. Hans Gaertner visited the Center for Historical Studies at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial for an eye-witness talk. Read more