News

18.12.2020

The Reflections Blog of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme

The Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme is pleased to introduce two new staff members for the Reflections blog. Since mid-November, Gyde Sönksen and Jonas Reinhardt have been supporting the Reflections blog and its social media presence as student volunteers. read more

07.12.2020

Seminar cycle Places of Violence, Places of Learning

How do former places of violence become places of historical-political education? What challenges and problems, but also opportunities and innovations does the transformation of former sites of violence into memorials offer? Are there different challenges in different countries? We are currently discussing these and other questions in a tri-national seminar cycle with multipliers from Albania, France and Germany. read more

24.11.2020

Our friend Haim Liss has passed away

Today we received the sad news that our friend Haim Liss had passed away on November 14, 2020 at the age of 89 in Israel. read more

20.11.2020

Yevgeny Malychin has passed away

Today we received the sad news that our friend Yevgeny Malychin passed away early in the morning at the age of 96 in Kharkov, Ukraine. read more

13.11.2020

The "Space to Remember, Connect and Support" was opened

On November 13 2020, the "Space to Remember, Connect and Support" was ceremonially opened on the grounds of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. From now on, relatives can design posters for their relatives imprisoned at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. The „Space to Remember“ consists of an on-site presentation in the form of printing plates, a billboard, a printing workshop, and a website with a digital archive. read more

11.11.2020

Report on the first Digital Workcamp “Was bleibt/What remains”

The annual International Workcamp at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial could, like so many planned events this year, not take place in the desired format. Instead of completely cancelling the event, a new medium was tried out, resulting in the first ever Online-Workcamp. This digital version was also organized and conceived in cooperation with the Service Civil International (SCI). read more

06.11.2020

Start of the "Space to Remember, Connect and Support"

Relatives of former prisoners of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp have developed the “Space to Remember, Connect and Support” as an active and expanding international memorial site created by and for the relatives of former prisoners of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. With individually-created posters, they tell the story of their persecuted family members. They invite others to reproduce the posters on-site and thus keep the memory alive. There will be a celebratory opening for this new, active memorial site on November 13, 2020. read more

05.10.2020

6th Future of Remembrance Forum 2020

Each year the Future of Remembrance Forum offers relatives of former concentration camp prisoners and victims of Nazi persecution, memorial site staff, and interested participants the opportunity to get to know one another and to exchange their views. The 6th Forum is to be held at Neuengamme Concentration Camp from 11 to 13 November 2020 and will revolve around the ways in which the memory of Nazism is reflected in the media. read more

24.09.2020

Launch of Exhibition Project „Riga as a Place of Crime and Remembrance”

In September 2020 the Project “Remembrance place Riga – The Deportation from the German-speaking territory and the Holocaust in Occupied Latvia 1941-1944” (exhibition title TBC) will be launched at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. The Project by Dr. Franziska Jahn and Matthias M. Ester M.A., supported by the German Foreign Office, will be in collaboration with German and Latvian Partners, who will create a bilingual travelling exhibition to this Theme. read more

15.09.2020

Two new volunteers from Australia and Russia

In early September, Elena Borodina and Justin Warland began their voluntary service at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. During the next 12 months, Elena from Russia and Justin from Australia will support the memorial in its various departments. read more