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

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

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

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

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

We would like to take the opportunity to thank you for all the support you have shown us in so many different ways throughout this year. We also want to give you a brief review of all the topics that have kept us busy over the past twelve months. Read more

According to the Hamburg Covid-19 regulations, which have been in effect since Feb. 19th, 2022, visitors in booked groups no longer have to prove that they have been vaccinated or have recovered. Read more

From 10 to 12 November 2021, the seventh "Future of Remembrance" Forum took place at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Relatives of victims of Nazi persecution, descendants of Nazi perpetrators, memorial site staff and those committed to the culture of remembrance from France, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, the USA and Germany came together to exchange views on approaches and practices of coming to terms with experiences of persecution and National Socialist perpetration in one’s family history. Read more

A few days ago, the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial received a letter as a gift from the family of Roman Kamieniecki. His grand-daughter Katarzyna Kozłowska presented the letter to Memorial Director Dr. Oliver von Wrochem during the Congress of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme (AIN). Read more

On November 5, 2021, a delegation of the CNPPA (Confédération Nationale des Prisonniers Politiques et Ayant Droits) from Belgium visited the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial to commemorate the resistance fighters Luis Derasse and Alexandre Seghers, who were imprisoned in Neuengamme, at the “Ort der Verbundenheit” (site of solidarity). The delegation included Guy Derasse, vice president of the CNPPA and son of Louis Derasse, and Michel Descamps, grandson of Alexandre Seghers as well as Claude Clarembaux and Jean Cardoen. Read more