Finally, the time has come: on Friday, November 13, 2020 at 11 am we want to inaugurate the ‘Space to Remember, Connect and Support’ on the grounds of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. We have been working towards this date for a long time and had to postpone it again in May this year due … Read more
Barbara Brix has been engaged in memory culture for years. In 2006 she began to deal with her father’s history during National Socialism in more detail than before. As a doctor, he was part of the so-called “Einsatzgruppen” (task forces) responsible for the murder of countless people in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Together with two … Read more
The son of a former prisoner of the Dachau concentration camp reports My father, Dr. Karl Otto Watzinger, was born in 1913. He grew up with two siblings in an educated middle-class family in Tübingen. His father, Carl Watzinger, was a professor of archaeology, his mother had no professional training, enjoyed literature and theatre and … Read more
Mykola Titow has been researching for many years on the history of his two uncles, who were deported to Germany as forced laborers during the Second World War and died there. In 2017 and 2018 he has travelled through Germany following their traces. Here he tells about his family, his mother’s last wish for information … Read more
Since issue no. 24/2015, reports on the transmission of remembrance in the families of four members of the Freundeskreis KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme e. V. have been published in freundeskreis aktuell, the journal of the Freundeskreis. They are either children of victims of National Socialism or of perpetrators. In this interview with Bernhard Esser, you can now … Read more
Bruno Neurath-Wilson tells about his father Willi Neurath, who survived various concentration camps as a political prisoner, and his mother Eva, who supported her husband in his resistance activities, about his childhood and early youth with a father who remained true to his ideals and why he wants to share his parents’ story with the … Read more
Now that the final concept of the “Space to Remember” has been approved and the seed funding has been secured, the realization process begins. On 2 May 2020, the “Space to Remember” will be inaugurated on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps. In the following letter, the “Working … Read more
On the third of May 1945 my father Willi Neurath survived the sinking of the Cap Arcona off Neustadt/Holstein. On 6 June 1948 he was elected – together with Rudi Goguel, Hans Schwarz and Jupp Händler, to name only a few – to the executive committee of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neuengamme” (AGN). I learned that while … Read more
In her first article “My family made bombs for Nazi Germany as slave laborers during WWII” Roslyn Eldar, the daughter of a former Neuengamme concentration camp prisoner, shared her experiences visiting Hamburg (Germany) on the occassion of the 73rd anniversary of the end of the war and the liberation of the camps. Here she reflects … Read more
Roslyn Eldar is the daughter of Lili Ruttner who was originally from Tacova (Czechoslovakia). Lili and six other family members survived Lübberstedt-Bilohe, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, where they worked in the ammunition production. Out of the six family members two are still alive today: Elizabeth Just, Lili’s younger sister lives in … Read more
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