Memorial Camp Neugraben

When the plaque at the site of the Außenlager on the Falkenbergsweg was repeatedly broken by questionable vandalism, a commemorative plaque was chosen in the village of Neugraben. The text on the copper plaque reads:

DESTRUCTION BY LABOR

Until the end of the 1960s, so-called "Plattenhäuser" stood here for Hamburger families that had been made homeless by the bombings. In addition to forced labor, prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp were used for the construction of these houses and the construction of streets and water pipes.

After years of living in other concentration camps, five hundred Jewish women, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, passed through Dessauer Ufer to the Außenlager Neugraben of the KZ Neuengamme.

From September 1944 to February 1945, these women were housed in the barracks camp on Falkenbergsweg and had to perform perilous forced labor for local construction companies. They were also used for clean-up work after the bombings in Harburg and Neugraben.

The survivors were taken to Tiefstack in February 1945 and from there to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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