Please note: The news of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial are presented here. All news of the Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Sites can be found in the Foundation's news list.

03/18/2022 News

What are we doing as a memorial in light of the war in Europe?

How do we react as institutions engaged in the culture of remembrance and as individual people in the face of the catastrophe just a few hundred kilometres to the east of us? How do we spring into action so as not to remain in a state of consternation? Read more

03/07/2022 Archival Research

New private documents on the internment camp received

Hans-Joachim and Jürgen Timm yesterday presented the memorial's archive with a collection of papers their father made during his one-year internment in Neuengamme. Read more

03/04/2022 News

Appeal from the world of remembrance of the deportation

The members of the international committees and national associations of remembrance of the camps of : Auschwitz, Buchenwald-Dora, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen have signed the following appeal : Stop this war immediately! Read more

03/03/2022 News

Teresa Stiland has died

It is with great sadness that we learned that our friend Teresa Stiland passed away yesterday in Paris. Teresa Stiland was born Matla Rozenberg in 1925 into a Jewish family in Częstochowa, Poland. She was 14 years old when German troops occupied Łódź, where she lived with her grandparents. Matla managed to survive the Litzmannstadt/Łódź ghetto; her relatives died in the ghettos or were murdered in Treblinka. Read more

03/03/2022 News

Roger Cassagne has died

We were saddened to learn that the honorary president of the regional association of deportees from Cantal (Mémoire(s) & déportation du Cantal) has passed away. Read more

02/28/2022 Exhibition

Exhibition "Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp"

The exhibition “Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp” will be on display at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial from 3 April to 26 June 2022. Read more

02/25/2022 News

Robert Pinçon would have been 100 years old today

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, we commemorate Robert Pinçon, to whom the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial owes a lot. Read more

02/18/2022 Commemorative ceremony

Announcement: Commemoration of the 77th anniversary of liberation

A preview of the events of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial taking place to mark the 77th anniversary of the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps in May 2022. Read more

02/18/2022 News

Rules for visiting the Foundation of Hamburg Memorial’s memorials

Our memorial sites are open. Please note the rules when visiting. Read more

02/04/2022 Blog

We mourn the death of Dr Hans Gaertner

We have received the sad news that Holocaust survivor Dr Hans Gaertner passed away in Prague on 1 February 2022. Read more