09/11/2023 Conference

9th Future of Remembrance Forum

Registration is open: Relatives of victims of Nazi persecution, descendants of Nazi perpetrators, people interested in the culture of remembrance and memorial staff are cordially invited to our two-day “Future of Remembrance” Forum at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial to exchange ideas and network on future issues of remembrance culture. Read more

08/08/2023 Event

Call for Participation: „Time shifts“. Towards a revision of the „International Monument“ at the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial

Online-Workshop September 8, 2023 9.30 am – 3 pm (Zoom). A German – English translation is provided. Read more

05/24/2023 Event

Registration for the workcamp now open!

Between August 26 and September 9 2023, young people have the opportunity to participate in the Refreshing Remembrance work camp. Read more

05/05/2023 Commemorative ceremony, Report

78th Anniversary of the Liberation

Multiple events were held in the presence of many guests at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial from 2 to 5 May 2023. Read more

03/22/2023 Commemorative ceremony

78th Anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp 2023

Events organized by the Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centers Commemorating the Victims of Nazi Crimes. Read more

05/15/2022 Event

Call for Papers for the Conference: "Welfare policy and social racism under Nazi rule"

We are looking for speakers for the conference "Welfare policy and social racism under Nazi rule" on the 6th/7th of October 2022 at Centre for Historical Studies at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial until the 18th of July. The conference aims to examine the surveillance, disciplinary and coercive measures implemented by Nazi welfare for the benefit of the Volksgemeinschaft, or people’s community, to ascertain the extent to which it co-operated with the police and the judiciary, and to consider the impact thereof.

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05/04/2022 Commemorative ceremony

Report on the commoration of the 77th anniversary of liberation

This year, together with the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme, the Foundation was again able to invite people to events to mark the anniversary of the liberation on site at the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial. In recent years, to our great regret, we had been unable to hold any commemorative events (2020) or welcome guests to Hamburg (2021) due to the Corona pandemic. To mark the occasion of the anniversary of the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps, a whole series of events took place at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in addition to the central commemoration ceremony on 3 May 2022. Read more

04/21/2022 Commemorative ceremony

Commemoration at Bullenhuser Damm

On 20 April, a memorial event attended by many relatives commemorated 20 Jewish children and at least 28 adults who were murdered 77 years ago by SS men in a school building at Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort. 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

09/30/2021 Time witness, Report

Shoa survivor Helga Melmed’s visit to Hamburg

Helga grew up in a Jewish family in Berlin as the only child of her parents Frieda and Georg Arndtheim. When Helga was 13 the whole family was deported to the Ghetto in Łódź/Litzmannstadt as part of the first transport out of Berlin where her parents were murdered. Helga was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and in 1944 she was selected by the SS for forced labour in various satellite camps of KZ Neuengamme in Hamburg (Veddel und Poppenbüttel/Sasel). Read more