The rose garden

We created the rose garden on a piece of land behind the former school playground. The area was made available to us by the city in 1983 and two years later the Hamburg artist Lili Fischer designed the garden with a pergola and a fence to shield it from the busy road. In the same year, the consulate donated a sculpture at the entrance to the garden in memory of the Soviet victims. Over the years, a lively, flourishing memorial was created, forming a pleasant contrast to the cellars of the murder site.

Today, the rose garden is an important part of the commemorative work on Bullenhuser Damm as a public green space with a memorial site. We ensure that it is given a dignified design and that it continues to exist.

On the ivy-covered fence, multilingual plaques explain the significance of the site and commemorate the two French doctors, the two Dutch nurses and each of the twenty Jewish children who were murdered in the nearby cellars on April 20, 1945.

A stone plaque has been erected in the middle of the fence, addressing visitors:

"Here you stand in silence but when you turn do not be silent"

Here, everyone has the opportunity to lay down or plant roses in remembrance. The rose garden is always open.