Neuengamme concentration camp
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Gallery
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Photo by Dr. Karl-Heinz Hochhaus via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Photo by Dr. Karl-Heinz Hochhaus via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Operational period: 1938–ongoing/unknown.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1938
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1938
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Max Bock1888–1953 · politician
- Henning Jensen1921–2018 · resistance fighter
- Leopold Heinrich Eisner1908–1942
- Paul Lamoureux1918–1945 · mechanic
- Douwe Witteveen1899–1981 · architect
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Jan den Boer1902–1944 · association football player- Gustav Bruhn1889–1944 · politician
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Anton de Kom1898–1945 · poetCornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 â 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author.
Bertus Smit1897–1994 · Esperantist
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Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
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Data completeness
28%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
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.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Neuengamme concentration camp. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/neuengamme-concentration-camp
"Neuengamme concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/neuengamme-concentration-camp.
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