NEUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMORIAL
NEUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMORIAL
With €477,000, the Jung Foundation is funding a new research project focused on the infirmary of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The program, which began on June 1, 2024, is planned to run for four and a half years and is exclusively financed by the Jung Foundation. The project’s goal is to comprehensively examine the medical care in the Neuengamme concentration camp and its long-term effects on the survivors.
The core of the research focuses on the camp’s prisoner infirmary, providing critical insights into the camp’s history and the development of National socialist concentration camps. The study will explore various phases of the camp’s history, from the minimal medical care in the early years to the handling of infectious diseases and the rationalization of medical services during the final years of the war. The project’s findings will be published in scientific journals and incorporated into the new permanent exhibition at the memorial site.
This endeavor significantly contributes to addressing the history of the Neuengamme concentration camp and to fostering remembrance culture — a purpose that the Jung Foundation, as a supporter of the project, wholeheartedly endorses. Further details can be found in the official press release. (https://www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/de/aktuelles/news/ein-neues-forschungsprojekt-zum-krankenrevier-des-kz-neuengamme)