Amicale de Neuengamme et ses Kommandos

 
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Neuengamme and satellite camps - Association of former prisoners and their families
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NEUENGAMME

A concentration camp and satellite camps in northern Germany

 

 Sculpture du déporté agonisant

The dying prisoner - by Françoise Salmon, ex-prisoner. © Amicale de Neuengamme

Ordinary people don't know that all is possible. Even if the testimonies enforce their brains to admit, their muscles don't believe. Concentration camps' prisoners do know.

David Rousset "L'univers concentrationnaire"

Hachette, coll. Pluriel, n° 913 (p. 181)

 

Getting to know Neuengamme

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106 000 prisoners of 28 nationalities

Between 48 and 49 % survived

11 500 French prisoners (men and women)

Between 35 and 36 % survived

LOCATION 

The Neuengamme brickworks was located 20 km. south-east of Hamburg, in the "Vier und Marschlanden" area on the right bank of the River Elbe ...

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Ecussonavec triangle rouge, lettre F et matricule

* Prisoner's number of the first known Frenchman in Neuengamme :

Anton GIES, born May 26th 1890 in Algrange (Moselle), died August 20th 1940.

Plan d'accès à Neuengamme

 
 Translation : Marie-Thérèse Hicks-Thébaud and Paul Starck