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Neuengamme

   
           

Concentration Camp Neuengamme

Below you can see photographs taken at the Neuengamme concentration camp and its subcamps. next >>

Photographs courtesy of the USHMM unless otherwise noted.

 

Ravensbrück was a women's concentration camp during the Second World Warm was opened in May 1939. was located in northern Germany, ninety kilometers north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück.
 

Survivors in Woebbelin speaking with their American liberators, May 4-5, 1945.

Survivors in Woebbelin speaking with their American liberators,
May 4-5, 1945.

 

Ravensbrück was located in northern Germany, ninety kilometers north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück.

 

     
Troops of the American 82nd Airborne Division view bodies of inmates at Wöbbelin, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Germany, May 6, 1945. From NARA II.

Troops of the American 82nd Airborne Division view bodies of inmates at Wöbbelin, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Germany,
May 6, 1945. From NARA II.
 

View of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Neuengamme, Germany, 1945.

View of the Neuengamme concentration camp.
Neuengamme, Germany, 1945.

 

Former prisoners of Wöbbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme, are taken to a hospital for medical attention. Germany, May 4, 1945.

Former prisoners of Wöbbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme, are taken to a hospital for medical attention. Germany, May 4, 1945.

     

In the spring of 1941, the SS authorities established a small men's camp adjacent
to the main camp.


 

Prisoners at forced labor in the Neuengamme concentration camp, 1941-2.

Prisoners at forced labor in the Neuengamme concentration camp, 1941-2.
 

Starting in the summer of 1942, medical experiments were conducted without consent on eighty-six women. The first type tested the efficacy of sulfonamide drugs. The second type studied bone, muscle and nerve regeneration.


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