Dessauer Ufer
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Dessauer Ufer is the former name of a street in the borough Hamburg-Mitte (Quarter Kleiner Grasbrook) of Hamburg, Germany. Today the street is named Dessauer Strasse.
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Located in the street the warehouse Lagerhaus G was a subcamp[1] of the Neuengamme concentration camp.
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[edit] The subcamp
Mid-July 1944 the camp was opened for 1000 Czechs and Hungarian Jewish woman selected from the concentration camp Auschwitz. After a month 500 more Polish-Jewish women were forced to work as oilman to rescue the refineries from Rhenania Ossag (Shell), Ebano-Oehler (Esso), J. Schindler, Jung-Öl and more. [2]
On September 13, 1944 the women were transported to the camps Hamburg-Sasel, Wedel and Hamburg-Neugraben. 2000 prisoners of war were brought to the camp. The clearing up work fot the refineries continued, some inmates were diging anti-tank obstacles at Hittfeld.
Through a air raid on October 25, 1944 the camp was partly destroyed. 150 inmates died and the SS transported the men to the subcamp Fuhlsbüttel. On February 15, 1945 800 prisoners were transported back from Fuhlsbüttel to the camp to produce petrol for Jung-Öl. On October 25, 1945 the SS closed the camp transporting the inmates to the camp Stalag X-B at Sandbostel.
[edit] Memorial
The Building is under historic preservation since 1988 because it keeps records of a typical unit of warehouses outside the Speicherstadt of Hamburg and its brick architecture.
At building today is a memorial plaque for the imates. The building itself is used as a warehouse and is open for a conducted tour. A guided tour by ship in the port of Hamburg to the subcamps and other sites are held regular.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The camp is listed as No. 556 and 557 Hamburg-Geilenberg in the official German list (German)
- ^ Lucille Eichengreen on Surviving the Holocaust Spiegel online international, November 29, 2006 Retrieved June 14, 2008
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Website of the memorial of the concentration camp Neuengamme (German)
- Website Hamburg memorial sites (German)
- Stichting Vriendenkring neuengamme website (Dutch)
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