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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 ...
Neuengamme. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites (including ghettos). The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people deemed to be "enemies of the state," and mass murder. Millions of people suffered and died ...
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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The estimated number of victims in Neuengamme is approximately 56,000. Thousands of inmates were hanged, shot, gassed, killed by lethal injection or transferred to the death camps Auschwitz and Majdanek. In the last weeks of the war, the SS decided to evacuate Neuengamme. This was the start of one of the worst death marches of the war.
Duitsland. 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. In June 1940, Neuengamme camp was enlarged and organised as an independent ...
Concentration camp prisoners working at the old brick factory. Photographer unknown, 1940. (NIOD 244 F/94485) At the end of 1938, the SS established a satellite 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 ...
As of June 4, 1940, Neuengamme became an independent concentration camp. Beginning in the autumn of 1941, thousands of Soviet Prisoners-of -War were brought to Neuengamme, and it is interesting to note that Soviet nationals eventually became the largest national group in the camp, numbering some 34,500, which included 5,900 female prisoners.
