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04/15/2024 Archival Research
In the summer of 2022, the Hansen family took a special suitcase with them on their journey from Denmark to Hamburg. It contained historical documents and drawings by three Danish artists, Thorvald C. Hansen, Preben Holm Hansen, and Ib Holm Hansen. This special collection can now be found in the archive of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Read more
11/15/2021 Archival Research
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
09/03/2021 Archival Research
The archive has received historical photos from the 1940s, taken in Bremen, Hamburg and Belarus. One collection shows concentration camp prisoners from the Bremen-Neuenland sub-camp clearing rubble. Another collection appears to have come from the possession of a member of Police Rifle Regiment 31 from Altona and shows photos from Altona and Belarus. Read more
10/24/2016 Archival Research
Dr. Victor Fenyes's daughters have lent their father's legacy to the archives of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. It has thus been made available for research while remaining family property. Read more
02/08/2016 Report, News
The employers of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial are mourning the loss of Helge Hansen who died on February 1, 2016 at the age of 93 in the presence of his daughter and his son-in-law. Read more
