Between 10. and 18. August: Visit of Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Memorial

Separate guided tours led by external guides will be organised for convention participants. To this end, volunteers from the religious community have set up water and catering stations, pavilion tents and mobile, temporary exhibition elements in the outdoor area of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial.

The outdoor grounds and the memorial’s exhibitions will, of course, remain fully open to all visitors throughout this period and are welcome to be visited.

The religious community of Jehovah’s Witnesses was persecuted in Germany from 1933 onwards; in Hamburg, the religion was banned on 15 July 1933. Those who held fast to their faith and refused to submit to Nazi rule were sent to prisons and concentration camps as ‘Bible Students’. Around 200 Jehovah’s Witnesses were imprisoned at Neuengamme concentration camp. More than 65 of them lost their lives.

You can find an audio tour about the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Neuengamme concentration camp HERE