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06.05.2026

81st anniversary of the liberation

To mark the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps, many international guests travelled to Hamburg in early May 2026. Among them were former prisoners Helga Melmed (USA) and Barbara Piotrowska (Poland) with family members, as well as delegations from the member associations of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme as well as other relatives of former prisoners of the Neuengamme concentration camp from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Spain, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and the USA. read more

06.05.2024

Review of the events to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners of Neuengamme concentration camp

We are delighted that so many people took part in this year's commemorative events, which were held to mark the 79th anniversary of the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps. We were particularly pleased that four survivors of the concentration camp, Dita Kraus, Livia Fränkel, Barbara Piotrowska and Helga Melmed, were in Hamburg with their relatives. read more

30.09.2021

Shoa survivor Helga Melmed’s visit to Hamburg

Helga grew up in a Jewish family in Berlin as the only child of her parents Frieda and Georg Arndtheim. When Helga was 13 the whole family was deported to the Ghetto in Łódź/Litzmannstadt as part of the first transport out of Berlin where her parents were murdered. Helga was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and in 1944 she was selected by the SS for forced labour in various satellite camps of KZ Neuengamme in Hamburg (Veddel und Poppenbüttel/Sasel). read more