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Jan 27, 2022 · 600-700 concentration camp prisoners remained in the main camp under SS orders to destroy all incriminating documentation, dismantle many areas of the camp, and tidy the site. On 2 May 1945, the...
More information about this image. The SS established Neuengamme in December 1938 as a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. It was located on the grounds of an abandoned brickworks on the banks of the Dove-Elbe, a tributary of the Elbe River in the Hamburg suburb Neuengamme, in northern Germany.
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 ...
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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 ...
During 1944, the SS brought a transport from Auschwitz concentration camp to Neuengamme containing twenty-five children between six and twelve years of age. A Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer, in Berlin, had previously selected those children for experiments for 'the benefits of progress in medicine.'
Neuengamme concentration camp Fritz Pfeffer was probably transported from Auschwitz to Neuengamme concentration camp in November 1944. Location. Neuengamme 53.430417 N 10.230694 E. Neuengamme. Duitsland
Neuengamme concentration camp, 1942-1945. Tags. Neuengamme concentration camps. US Holocaust Memorial Museum; This content is available in the following languages.
