News of the Memorial Bullenhuser Damm

Memorial work and its contemporary relevance

In consultation with the Foundation, the Expert Commission of the Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres Commemorating the Victims of Nazi Crimes has drawn up a key issues paper on the relationship between current socio-political trends and memorial work. The paper, which has been widely approved by the Foundation Council, is worded as follows: read more

Year-end Circular Letter 2020/2021

We would like to take the opportunity of this year-end circular letter to thank you for all the support you have shown us in so many different ways throughout this peculiar year. We also want to give you a brief review of all the topics that have kept us busy over the past twelve months. read more

Seminar cycle Places of Violence, Places of Learning

How do former places of violence become places of historical-political education? What challenges and problems, but also opportunities and innovations does the transformation of former sites of violence into memorials offer? Are there different challenges in different countries? We are currently discussing these and other questions in a tri-national seminar cycle with multipliers from Albania, France and Germany. read more

Commemoration at Bullenhuser Damm

Art project to commemorate the children of Bullenhuser Damm

Every year on the 20th of April we commemorate the children of Bullenhuser Damm. And every year students think about the most creative way to do that. read more

Remembering the Children of Bullenhuser Damm

At the invitation of the Children of Bullenhuser Damm Association, 250 guests including the children’s relatives from the USA, Belgium, England and Hamburg attended the commemorative ceremony on April 20, 2017. read more

Commemoration Ceremony at Bullenhuser Damm with a Special Guest

Grete Hamburg donates the stamp album that belonged to her brother Walter Jungleib, who was killed at Bullenhuser Damm, to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. read more

International Youth Meeting Project: Remember Bullenhuser Damm

Last week young people from five countries met in Hamburg to remember the children from Bullenhuser Damm and to think about the future of remembrance. read more