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 It contained historical documents and drawings by three Danish artists, Thorvald C. Hansen, Preben Holm Hansen, and Ib Holm Hansen.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.
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A few days ago, the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial received a letter as a gift from the family of Roman Kamieniecki. His grand-daughter Katarzyna Kozłowska presented the letter to Memorial Director Dr. Oliver von Wrochem during the Congress of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme (AIN).
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The archive has received historical photos from the 1940s, taken in Bremen, Hamburg and Belarus. One collection shows concentration camp prisoners from the Bremen-Neuenland sub-camp clearing rubble. Another collection appears to have come from the possession of a member of Police Rifle Regiment 31 from Altona and shows photos from Altona and Belarus.
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