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It is situated 15 km southeast of the centre of Hamburg.
Located just outside of Hamburg, the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial stands as a solemn reminder of the atrocities committed during World War II. This memorial visit holds great significance, providing visitors with a powerful and emotional experience that educates and honors the memory of those who suffered and died at the camp.
In December 1938, the SS established a sub camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in an abandoned brick factory in the Neuengamme suburb of Hamburg. In the early summer of 1940, Neuengamme became an independent camp and remained the main concentration camp in North-West Germany until 1945. The Gestapo and the SS security service sent tens of thousands of people from across occupied ...
Jan 27, 2022 · You may not have heard of Neuengamme, near Hamburg, in the north of Germany. Established in 1938, it was built by the prisoners themselves, and had close to 90 satellite camps, known as Aussenkommandos. This year, the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day is ‘One Day’. Looking at the records we hold relating to the Neuengamme concentration camp ...
Date: 1940 - 1945. Related Topics: Nazi Party. Roma. political prisoner. forced labour. Jew. Related Places: Germany. Hamburg. Neuengamme-Ring, a complex of Nazi German concentration camps situated in marshy country near Neuengamme, a suburb of the port city of Hamburg, Germany.
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Neuengamme was a German concentration camp to the south of Hamburg, from 1938 to 1945. [1] Neuengamme was a village located about twenty kilometres south-east of Hamburg, where a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp had been established since 1938.
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