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.

03/03/2022 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

01/28/2022 News

The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial is part of the “TikTok – Shoah Education and Commemoration Initiative”

On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism (27th January), memorial sites and museums in Germany and Austria launched their activities on the TikTok platform. Read more

01/26/2022 News

On the location of the denk.mal Documentation Centre Hannoverscher Bahnhof

A year ago, after the Hamburger Abendblatt announced in the 16th/17th January 2021 that the Wintershall Deah is moving to HafenCity, debates began about the location of the planned denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof documentation centre on the edge of Lohsepark. Read more

01/19/2022 News

Subcamp Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen

We have added another satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp to the list of satellite camps. We have based this on recent research by the Drütte Concentration Camp Memorial and Documentation Centre. This subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp was located west of the Gebhardshagen district in Salzgitter in the summer of 1944. Read more