Concentration Camp Hamburg-Sasel

Between September 1944 and April 1945 there was a satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg-Sasel.

About 500 women, most of them being Jewish from the Lodz ghetto, but also a number being political prisoners and Sinti (Romany people), were brought from Auschwitz concentration camp to Sasel.

They were employed clearing bomb damage in the inner city of Hamburg and in constructing a prefabricated housing settlement in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel.

The weakened and starving women were pressed to this hard labour under the most difficult of conditions and many of them died.

On 7 April 1945 the women were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

There is now a memorial on the location of the camp and a prefabricated building from that period housing a small museum.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Mark Michaelis