Neuengamme concentration camp

KZ-Neuengamme was a Nazi concentration camp built near Hamburg in 1938 and operated until its liberation in 1945. It was first used as a forced labour camp and later as an extermination camp. In Neuengamme and its numerous satellite camps, including the Bullenhuser Damm satellite camp, mainly Jews, political prisoners, prisoners of war and other victim groups were forced to work under the most brutal conditions.

Thousands of prisoners died at Neuengamme from mistreatment, disease, hunger and exhaustion. After the war, the camp was used by the Allies to educate people about Nazi crimes, and today a memorial commemorates the camp's victims and its history. The Bullenhuser Damm Memorial is a branch of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial.