Schule Bullenhuser Damm, Cultural heritage memorial in Rothenburgsort, Germany.
Schule Bullenhuser Damm is a red brick school building at 92–94 Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg's Rothenburgsort district. Its symmetrical main block has a projecting single-storey base with three large round-arched windows, five rows of white-framed multi-paned windows above, and a red tiled roof with a raised hipped central section. Since 1979 a memorial has occupied the basement, where the murders took place.
The building began as a school and was converted into a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp during World War II. Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on prisoners held there before the camp was liquidated in 1945.
The site preserves the stories of twenty Jewish children and their caretakers through personal objects and biographical accounts displayed throughout the building. Visitors come to read the names of the victims and connect with the individuals whose lives were cut short.
The memorial is in the basement of the former school at Bullenhuser Damm 92–94 in Rothenburgsort; the building now houses a Finkenau foundation kindergarten. The site belongs to the Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte. The basement rooms where the murders took place are reached by stairs, so visitors with limited mobility should ask about access in advance.
The victims' names, ages and countries of origin were recorded by Hans Meyer, a Scandinavian prisoner released to Sweden in the war's final months. The 20 children came from Poland, the Netherlands, France, Slovakia and Italy; the transport from Auschwitz was disguised as typhoid patients, with the children given chocolate and milk on the way.
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