Visit the memorial

The memorial, opened by the association in 1980, is located in the basement of the former school building at Bullenhuser Damm 92-94. For nearly 20 years, the memorial was privately managed by the association Kinder vomBullenhuser Damm e.V., until it was officially recognized by the City of Hamburg in 1999. Today, it is part of the Hamburg Foundation of Memorials and Places of Learning in Memory of the Victims of Nazi Crimes.

In 2011, the memorial expanded with the addition of more basement rooms and a newly designed, modern exhibition created by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. This exhibition tells the story of the children and their caretakers who were murdered here, while also shedding light on the largely unknown fate of the Soviet prisoners who were executed on Bullenhuser Damm that same night.

The bilingual (German/English) exhibition covers various themes: the history of the building as a school and a satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp, the persecution and deportation of Jewish people in the countries occupied by the German Wehrmacht, the medical experiments at Neuengamme, the perpetrators, and the history of remembrance surrounding the crime. The cellar rooms where the murders happened can be accessed via a corridor.