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(ANg 2014-479) About the Memorial. The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial encompasses almost the entire historic site of the concentration camp, including 17 original buildings. It is one of the largest memorials in Germany (57 hectares), and approximately 100,000 people visit here each year.
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In June 1940, the SS decided to establish an independent concentration camp at Neuengamme. By this time, two further transports of prisoners from Sachsenhausen had increased the prisoner population to around 1,000. By the end of that year, approximately 3,000 prisoners were incarcerated in Neuengamme. In August 1943, the prisoner population was app...
While Neuengamme was still a subcamp, SS chief Heinrich Himmlerappointed SS Major Walter Eisfeld as Neuengamme's commandant. In April 1940, SS Captain Martin Weiss replaced Eisfeld. When Weiss returned to Dachau in late summer 1942, SS Lieutenant Colonel Max Pauly became commandant, a position he held until the liberation of the camp in 1945.
As in other concentration camps, the prisoners were given inadequate food, shelter, or medicine to maintain their health. The camp authorities deployed them at forced labor, in camp construction, in the brickworks factory, in river-regulation projects on the Elbe and on construction of a canal between the Dove and Elbe Rivers. After the Allies bega...
German physicians conducted medical experimentson prisoners in Neuengamme. In early 1942, scientists from the Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases used prisoners to test means to combat lice-borne typhus. In 1944, SS physician Kurt Heissmayer conducted experiments to develop drugs to combat tuberculosis; his subjects were 20 Jewish children...
Beginning in 1942, the SS sought to become the chief provider of labor in response to increasing demand in the German armaments industry. That year three companies built plants on the grounds of the camp. The Walther-Werke, based in Zella-Mehlis, established a manufacturing plant for small arms production that deployed around 1,000 prisoners. In Ap...
At the end of 1944, approximately 10,000-12,000 prisoners remained incarcerated in the Neuengamme concentration camp, with another 37,000-39,000 in the subcamps. This figure included almost 10,000 women. Toward the end of the war, the death rate among prisoners in the Neuengamme system, which had been steadily climbing, reached catastrophic proport...
Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial is on the site of the largest former Nazi concentration camp in north-west Germany. Neuengamme Memorial is a historical site dedicated to the more than 100,000 people who were imprisoned in the Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps between 1938 and 1945.
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Location. The Neuengamme brickworks was located 20 km south-east of Hamburg, in the “Vier und Marschlanden” area on the right bank of the River Elbe “in this place the soil is very good quality”. The surrounding marshland was rich in clay deposits which were to be excavated by the prisoners and fired in the kilns of the brick factory.
More exhibitions: Bullenhuser Damm Memorial. Fuhlsbüttel Memorial. Poppenbüttel Memorial. denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof. When the city of Hamburg released the entire compound of the former Neuengamme concentration camp to the Memorial in 2001–2002, the grounds were redeveloped and exhibitions redesigned. As of 2005, the Memorial ...
The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial is located on the southeastern outskirts of Hamburg, in the district of Bergedorf. Situated here between 1938 and 1945 was one of the German Reich's largest concentration camps with over 80 satellite camps. A first memorial site was established on the initiative of survivors in 1965.
