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Research Projects
One of our tasks at Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial is to help initiate research projects on the history of Neuengamme and its satellite camps and to publish the results of this research. For this purpose, the Memorial cooperates with several partner universities, research institutes, museums, other memorials, history workshops and initiatives – especially those with a focus on the history of Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps during and after the war. The Memorial regularly publishes the work of these research projects in Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung in Norddeutschland, Neuengammer Kolloquien and Neuengammer Studienheften.
The following projects are currently underway in the Memorial’s archive:
- Completing the camp prisoner databases
- Evaluating the custody lists of the former prisons
- Comparing the camp’s transport records and dates with those of other memorial archives
- Researching the satellite camp system
- Researching the history of the Neuengamme concentration camp’s construction
- The historical and art historical analysis of prisoners’ drawings
- Researching the SS guards stationed at Neuengamme concentration camp
The following projects are currently underway in the Centre for Historical Studies:
- Assistance for visiting researchers and scholarship recipients who are staying for longer periods
- Human rights and historical-political education for government employees (police officers, armed forces personnel, public administrators and the judiciary) in cooperation with academic and institutional partners.
- Developing Competence-Orientated Teaching on Historical Memories (TeacMem)
- Research project on Nazi perpetrators and how they have been dealt with in families and society
- Research project focusing on concentration camp survivors and their children and how the experience of Nazi persecution has been passed on from generation to generation
- Development of the memorial site and documentation center "denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof"
- Participation in the Research Training Group "Vergegenwärtigungen. Repräsentationen der Shoah in komparatistischer Perspektive" (Realizations: Representations of the Shoah in Comparative Perspective) of the University of Hamburg.
- Project cooperation with the Universities of Hamburg and Augsburg to develop pedagogical materials on "Racisms in Colonialism and National Socialism"
- "Military Justice and the City During the War" - Research Project on the Practice of Wehrmacht Courts in Hamburg During the Second World War.
- "#Waswillstdutun? A multimedia project on the contemporary relevance of family history in the National Socialist era".
- Passing On History from Generation to Generation: Building the Future of Remembrance of National Socialism in the Society Shaped by Migration
The Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres is in charge of other third-party funded projects. Currently the project "Serious Game. The children of Bullenhuser Damm".
All special exhibitions designed by the Research and Exhibitions Department are available for loan and were initially presented at the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Hamburg City Hall. Examples:
- Deported to Neuengamme Concentration Camp: Punitive Actions by the Wehrmacht and the SS in Occupied Europe (2015)
- “Euthanasia”: How the Nazis Murdered People with Disabilities and Mental Illness in Hamburg (2014)
- Deserters and Other Victims of Persecution by the Nazi Military Judiciary: Wehrmacht Jurisdiction in Hamburg (2013)
- Documenting the Stadthaus: The Hamburg Police under the Nazis (2012)
- Neuengamme Concentration Camp and the Site after the War in Focus. Pictures of the Camp and Memorial (2011)
- Other exhibitions: List of all exhibitions
