Metadata: Neuengamme Concentration Camp – Horneburg Satellite Camp
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Archive of Regional History within the Horneburg Museum of Crafts
- Holding institution (official language):
- Regionalgeschichtliches Archiv im Handwerksmuseum Horneburg
- Postal address:
- Marschdamm 2c, 21640 Horneburg
- Phone number:
- +49 4163 6320
- Title:
- Neuengamme Concentration Camp – Horneburg Satellite Camp
- Title (official language):
- KZ Neuengamme Außenlager Horneburg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Archive of Regional History within the Horneburg Museum of Crafts
- Date(s):
- 1944/2001
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1 archive box
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains the original exhibition material from a 2001 exhibition about the forced labour camp in Horneburg which was part of the Neuengamme concentration camp system. It includes 18 posters displaying texts such as general information about the camp's history and oral history interviews, photos from the camp, plans and maps. The exhibition was first shown in the 1990s and has been constantly modified and enhanced. It is displayed every five years in order to show it to a new generation of school children. The exhibition covers the camp organisation, the lives and fates of the prisoners and their experiences in the camp. A special section is dedicated to the camp physician Dr. Otto Moje, a former navy doctor, who is said to have saved several women by declaring them ill and secretly supporting them in hospital. The posters include an interview with Dr. Moje's widow, interviews and reports by former inmates and a documentary about a visit of former inmate Lea Schnapp in 1999, who returned to Horneburg to share details of her camp experience with school children. Most of the documents are displayed as transcripts; original photos and camp sketches are part of the exhibition. The posters also deal with the later use of the camp as refugee accommodation.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Horneburg camp was established in 1944 to house forced labourers working in a nearby factory that produced radio elements for the Valvo/Philipps Company. Only young women between 16 and 24 were forced to work there, most of them Dutch, Polish and Hungarian Jews. After several months the camp was evacuated and most of the prisoners sent to Bergen-Belsen, where only very few survived the chaotic late phase of World War II. After 1945 it was used to shelter refugees from the occupied eastern German regions (Prussia and Silesia), while still owned by the Valvo/Philipps Company. It was sold to the municipal administration in 1947. From 1948 on it was torn down and replaced by modern housing.
- Access points: locations:
- Bergen-Belsen
- Hamburg
- Neuengamme
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham, Eva
- Kreszner, Edit
- Miklose, Ungar
- Moje, Otto
- Schnapp, Lea
- System of arrangement:
- Each poster represents a specific topic.
- Finding aids:
- The complete exhibition is available on CD-Rom.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen