I have been researching my family history for years and in this context I have spent many hours in various archives and immersed myself in all kinds of documents and photos. Of course, my father Jules also became a topic. During the Second World War, my father worked at OIP (‘Société Belge d’Optique et d’Instruments … Read more
I could write a lot. I could recount the grey stories of the concentration camps and the post-war period, which are still incredibly distressing and painful today. I could mention the small cross pendant that was snatched from the camp and miraculously returned to my family many years later. A symbol of faith and hope … Read more
My name is Margit Grome, and I am the daughter of Erik Holger Grome. He was a member of the resistance movement in Denmark and a prisoner in the Neuengamme concentration camp. Over the years, I have made several trips to the memorial, both as a child with my parents, as an adult and now … Read more
On May 2, 2024, the working group “Ort der Verbundenheit” (Space to Remember) once again hosted an open printing workshop for relatives of former inmates followed by a public poster presentation to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners of Neuengamme concentration camp. Almost 200 relatives and others who were interested attended … Read more
Although social and political activism of Roma* and Sinti*[1] living in Germany is no longer a marginal phenomenon, Roma* activism as a whole receives little attention from the media or society. Since the civil rights movement in Germany (Bürgerrechtsbewegung) of the 1970s, Roma* and Sinti* activists have been raising their voices (cf. Gress, 2015; Herold … Read more
Vital Craeninckx was named after his paternal grandfather Vital Craeninckx who died in Neuengamme on November 16, 1944 at the age of 51. Also Vital’s grandfather from his mother’s side of the family, Frans Pasteyns, was deported and died at the age of 48 on February 23, 1945 in the camp Meppen-Versen. He was one … Read more
My name is Paulina, and I am the granddaughter of a former prisoner of the Neuengamme concentration camp – my wonderful, beloved Grandma Krystyna Razińska. I grew up with the belief that the world is good, I learned how to love other people, forgive and not harbor anger in myself. My parents protected me from … Read more
Marianne Rüsz’s father Børge Emil Pedersen was imprisoned in the Neuengamme concentration camp and the Versen satellite camp. She became an active memeber of the Danish Neuengamme Association to fulfil the promise that her father and other prisoners who survived made to their fallen comrades: “They shall not be forgotten”. How did you learn about … Read more
Viviane Cauwbergs is the granddaughter of Evrard Cauwbergs who was arrested during the second raid in Meensel-Kiezegem and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp where he died. Viviane told us about her growing up with a father whose father died at the hands of the Nazis, about the silence shrouding her grandfather’s story for a … Read more
Rafael Priego is a great-nephew of Gabriel Priego González, who fought with the Third Mixed Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. At the end of the war, Gabriel Priego Gonzáles fled to France where he was interned in a camp for Spanish refugees. Following the German defeat of France in … Read more
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