Gebäude und Gelände des KZ Neuengamme, Memorial site in Bergedorf, Germany

The Neuengamme concentration camp memorial is a memorial site in Hamburg with preserved buildings, walls, and exhibition spaces on the grounds of the former camp. The facility spreads across a large area where residential buildings, work structures, and documentation centers stand as records of this period.

The SS established the camp in 1938 as a satellite of Sachsenhausen and ran it until 1945, with over 80 subcamps. Of roughly 100,000 prisoners, at least 42,900 died from forced labour in the SS brickworks, armaments production and military construction, from murders, and during the camp clearances from April 1945. British troops found the site cleared on 4 May 1945.

The site's name comes from the Neuengamme marshland in the Vierlande, where the SS acquired a small disused brickworks in 1938. The former SS garages now hold an exhibition on the camp SS and a learning workshop, and the brickworks houses a display on clinker production. The ornamental fountain of the SS leaders' mess garden, restored in 1998, still stands.

The memorial site is located near Bergedorf and open daily without entrance fees, with guided tours available in multiple languages. It is best to wear comfortable shoes and allow time to explore the large grounds and view the exhibitions.

The old brickworks was demolished before the war ended; only its foundations remain, now beneath a post-war housing estate for officials. The large clinker works that replaced it survives, holds an exhibition on brick production, and its central section is closed because it is at risk of collapse.