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Germany. The Wöbbelin camp, near the city of Ludwigslust, was a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The SS had established Wöbbelin in early February 1945 to house concentration camp prisoners whom the SS had evacuated from other camps to prevent their liberation by the Allies. At its height, Wöbbelin held some 5,000 inmates, many ...
Nov 11, 2004 · KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. 11 Nov 2004. Between 1938 - 1945. Male and Female. German. 131643. Neuengamme [concentration camp], Germany. Personal data from this database is available only to staff researchers; please refer all requests for further information to KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Concentration camp.
This is a detail of a photograph taken shortly after the Wöbbelin satellite camp was liberated in 1945. (ANg 1981-1077) Daily life was characterised by arbitrary punishments, violence and submission. Prisoners struggled not to give up in their ongoing fight for survival. The smallest violation of a guard’s orders could be punished severely.
In the autumn of 1938, the SS purchased an old brick factory in Neuengamme close to the Hamburg district of Bergedorf with the aim of setting up a concentration camp there. On December 12, 1938, the SS transported 100 prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to Neuengamme, at the time a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen.
Until June 4th, 1940, Neuengamme was a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen. At this date Neuengamme became an independent concentration camp, under the direct control of the overseer of concentration camps. The prisoners worked on the construction of the camp and the brickworks, regulating the flow of the Dove-Elbe river and the building of a branch ...
Concentration Camp Neuengamme. Cabinet Reynaud (1940) Second World War (1939-1945) Jean Dolidier-Weg 75, 21039 Hamburg-Neuengamme. +49-402489603. neuengamme @ gedenkstaetten.hamburg.de. kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de. Germany Hamburg Hamburg-Neuengamme. Hidden between vast stretches of meadows, near the Jean Dolidierweg in the "Vierlanden" area ...
– Traces from the past: the Neuengamme concentration camp from 1938 to 1945 and its post-war history (Main exhibition in the brick building at the end of the Place d’Appel – former prisoners’ blocks – erected in 1943/44).
