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27.05.2025

Stolen Memory - Exhibition at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

From 5 to 25 June 2025, we will be showing the #StolenMemory exhibition by the Arolsen Archives about personal belongings of concentration camp prisoners. read more

Bild von Familienfotos, Schmuck und einem Kreuz neben einer Papiertasche. Dies sind Effekten von Neonella Doboitschina, die u.a. in einem Außenlager des KZ Neuengamme inhaftiert war

04.04.2025

‘I had returned. Alone.’ – The end of the war and the liberation in 1945 from the perspective of Hamburg survivors of Nazi persecution

An open-air exhibition in the ‘Fuge’ at denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof memorial site, Lohsepark HafenCity. Exhibition run: 28 April – 31 October 2025 read more

30.01.2025

Invitation: New posters for A Space to Remember

On the 4th of May, 2025, the anniversary of Neuengamme’s liberation, new posters will be presented at the "Space to Remember" at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Are you interested in creating a remembrance poster for your relative? read more

04.11.2024

Visit by Julia Maria Hochfeld Baker at the Hannoverscher Bahnhof Commemorative Site

On October 29, 2024, Julia Maria Hochfeld Baker and her grandson Israel Hochfeld Baker Monteiro from Brazil visited the Hannoverscher Bahnhof Commemorative Site. Sabine Brunotte from the Stumbling Stone Initiative accompanied them. Julia Maria Hochfeld Baker's grandparents, Alfred Hochfeld and Julie Hochfeld, née Linz, were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on July 15, 1942 via the Hannoverscher Bahnhof. read more

An elderly woman and a man stand in front of a row of name plaques. The man has his arm around the older woman's shoulders. Behind the name plaques are railway tracks.

24.08.2024

Two commemorative visits from Belgium

We are grateful for the visit of two Belgian groups on their commemorative trips to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on Saturday 24 August 2024. read more

15.04.2024

A suitcase full of exciting papers

In the summer of 2022, the Hansen family took a special suitcase with them on their journey from Denmark to Hamburg. It contained historical documents and drawings by three Danish artists, Thorvald C. Hansen, Preben Holm Hansen, and Ib Holm Hansen. This special collection can now be found in the archive of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. read more

25.08.2023

"Not Just a Memorial"

From 1 September to 31 October 2023, the photo installation ‘Not Just a Memorial’ will feature survivors and descendants at the ‘denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof’ memorial site. read more

11.04.2023

Sara, not Surcis – new information about one of the children from Bullenhuser Damm

20 Jewish children were murdered in the basement of a former school on 20 April 1945. We now also know the correct spelling of Sara Goldfinger’s name and her date of birth. read more

07.03.2022

New private documents on the internment camp received

Hans-Joachim and Jürgen Timm yesterday presented the memorial's archive with a collection of papers their father made during his one-year internment in Neuengamme. 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