Neuengamme concentration camp
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In all, the SS incarcerated approximately 104,000-106,000 people in Neuengamme from December 1938 until May 1945; approximately 13,500 of the prisoners were women. The largest groups by nationality were Soviets (34,350); Poles (16,900), French (11,500), Germans (9,200), Dutch (6,950), Danes (4,800), and Belgians (4,800). Initially, there were very few Jews in the camp; by 1942, they numbered between 300 and 500. In the summer and autumn of 1942, the SS removed all of the Jews, deporting those not killed in the camp to Auschwitz. In 1944, the SS transferred both Polish and Hungarian Jews to Neuengamme, many of them via Auschwitz. In all, some 13,000 Jews were prisoners in Neuengamme.
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Year opened
1938
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Population held
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Opened
1938
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Death-row facility
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Notable inmates
- Georg Steinfelder1914–1945 · resistance fighter
- Yves Bodiguel1910–1945 · trade unionist
- August Streufert1887–1944 · politician
- Paul Dölz1887–1975 · politician
- Franz Reetz1884–1945 · politician
- Eduard Pulvermann1882–1944 · athlete
- Gerhard Frankenberg1892–1969 · politician
- Heinrich Bachert1909–1945 · politician
- Jakob Dautzenberg1897–1979 · politician
Jakob Dautzenberg (born 2 February 1897, in Würselen (today part of the district of Aachen); died 20 August 1979 in Aachen) was a German politician, member of the Communist Party of Germany, and resistance fighter against the Nazis.
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q312478)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.