Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme

06/02/2026

in 1911 Karl Hutter was born in Dlažov in Czech. It is unknown to us, when he was arrested and imprisoned by the N***s, but he was probably imprisoned in Prague before he was deported to Concentration Camp on the 26. April 1940. There he had the prisoner number 6388. On the 23. January 1941 he was deported to . There his only trace is a false death certificate. In June and July 1942, the registry office recorded the deaths of 295 men who were not listed in the infirmary's death register. The causes of death given are unusually detailed and bear traces of ‘Aktion 14 f 13’. These men died in the gas chamber of the killing centre. For Karl Hutter the 18 June 1942 is given as the official date of death. In April 1942, a medical commission visited the Neuengamme concentration camp to examine previously selected prisoners, like Karl. In the first days of June 1942, he and the other men were transported to Bernburg and killed there by gas. The date of the murder campaign can be deduced from the few surviving documents. On 1 June 1942, the laboratory journal of the Neuengamme concentration camp infirmary recorded examinations of two prisoners who were then transported to Bernburg. On 5 June, the camp's own registry office began to enter the names of those murdered into the death register in alphabetical order. Among the 295 murdered were an above-average number of Jews and numerous prisoners who had fallen ill during their imprisonment. Karl Hutter was 31 years old, when he was murdered in a so called health and nursing home in Bernburg.

05/02/2026

in 1945 Erich Kleeberg was deported in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. He was born on the 3. May 1902 in Boffzen. He was married and worked at a bank. On the 27.11.1944 he was arrested by the N***s and imprisoned in Ahlem close to . On the 5. February 1945 he was deported to . There are no details about his imprisonment there available in the archive. It is only known, that he got in a transport to Sandbostel at the end of the war, in April 1945. Around 9,500 men, many of them from the satellite camps in Bremen, Wilhelmshaven and the Emsland region, spent the last weeks of their imprisonment in . There were insufficient provisions, and a typhus epidemic broke out as well, so many prisoners died in Sandbostel.

During an air-raid alarm on the night of 19 April 1945, several hundred prisoners stormed a kitchen hut to find food. During the same night, the SS left the camp and headed in the direction of Flensburg with several hundred prisoners who were still “able to march”.

Until the British army arrived on 29 April, the remaining concentration camp prisoners were largely left to their own devices and were given emergency rations by the POWs in the neighbouring camp.

Over 3,000 concentration camp prisoners died in Sandbostel between 12 and 29 April 1945 and in the following weeks as a result of their imprisonment. Erich Kleeberg did not survive his imprisonment there. He was 43 years old when he died. His descendants remember him until today and have created a poster for him at the "Space to Remember" in the Neuengamme Memorial.

04/02/2026

in 1902 Nuchim Hersz Fajertag was born in Częstochowa in Poland. It is unknown to us, when he was arrested and imprisoned by the N***s. He probably was sent to from Concentration Camp in April 1941. The only document about him in the database of the of the Neuengamme Memorial is his death certificate, issued by the Special Registry Office A (Sonderstandesamt A), which was a special office created by the SS at the Neuengamme concentration camp. It served to cover up the massive number of deaths at the camp and their cause. According to former prisoners, the causes of death listed in the document were usually taken at random from a list of illnesses in order to mask the real cause of death, like hunger, abuse, or exhaustion from strenuousness forced labour. In June and July 1942, the registry office recorded the deaths of 295 men who were not listed in the infirmary's death register. The causes of death given are unusually detailed and bear traces of ‘Aktion 14 f 13’. These men died in the gas chamber of the killing centre. For Nuchim Hersz Fajertag, 15 June 1942 is given as the official date of death. In April 1942, a medical commission visited the Neuengamme concentration camp to examine previously selected prisoners, like Nuchim. In the first days of June 1942, he and the other men were transported to Bernburg and killed there by gas. The date of the murder campaign can be deduced from the few surviving documents. On 1 June 1942, the laboratory journal of the Neuengamme concentration camp infirmary recorded examinations of two prisoners who were then transported to Bernburg. On 5 June, the camp's own registry office began to enter the names of those murdered into the death register in alphabetical order. Among the 295 murdered were an above-average number of Jews and numerous prisoners who had fallen ill during their imprisonment. Nuchim Hersz Fajertag was 40 years old, when he was murdered by doctors in a so called health and nursing home in Bernburg.

03/02/2026

in 1920 Biagio Stampone was born in Nimis, Italy. In the beginning of October 1944 he was arrested and imprisoned in Concentration Camp. At the 22. October 1945 he was deported from there to Concentration Camp. It is possible that he was in a bad health condition during that time, because extra quarantine is noted on his WVHA Card. The SS Main Economic and Administrative Department (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt or in short WVHA) in Oranienburg used its card catalogue system to more effectively organise the employment of prisoners as forced labourers. There are no names on the cards, only the date of birth and prisoner number. The cards also contain information about the relocation of prisoners to other and the type of forced labour they performed. The most common type of work was indicated with the number “790”, which stood for “unskilled labourer” (Hilfsarbeiter). Biagios prisoner number in Neuengamme was the 62936. The specific circumstances of his time in Neuengamme are unknown to us. Biagio Stampone died in the main camp of Neuengamme on the 21.01.1945. He was nearly 25 years old.

02/02/2026

in 1945 the brothers Willem, Teunis, Hendrik and Beert Vlieger were transported to Concentration Camp. They have been arrested at De Haere near Doornspijk in the early morning of 11 December 1944.

The boys were on their way to their work site in the woods. The brothers Willem, Hendrik, Beert and Teunis were taken with other detainees to Apeldoorn and on 19 December transferred to Kamp . On 2 February 1945, the brothers were deported to Neuengamme concentration camp. In April, Willem was transferred to the satellite camp, where he died on 24 April.

Hendrik died in Neuengamme on 3 March 1945.

In April, Beert and Teunis were transferred to the satellite camp, where they both died. Willem was 28 years old, Hendrik was 25 years old, and Beert was 24. Teunis was the youngest of the four. He was 19 years old. Their descendants remember them until today and have created posters for them at the "Space to Remember" in the Neuengamme Memorial.

01/02/2026

in 1885 Kurt Urban was born in Breslau. He was the first prisoner that died in the . It is not known to us, what led to his imprisonment in the Concentration Camp, but when Neuengamme was established as a Satellite Camp of Sachsenhausen, Kurt Urban was in on the first transport on the 12.12.1938. When Neuengamme became a main camp, he was assigned the prisoner number 299. On the 22.02.1940 Kurt Urban died in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp, making him the first death from around 42.900 people that died there within five years of its existence. Kurt Urban was 60 years old. His body was collected at the maincamp and brought to the crematory of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. There he was cremated and buried on the 27.02.1940.

31/01/2026

in 1923 Pierre Delor was born. He was a political prisoner from France, who survived the Concentration Camp and its various satellite camps. During his nearly one year in the camp he had to clear the City of from bombs, worked in various hard labour commandos, digging clay in the main camp and worked in various factories in the Hamburg City Centre and Harbour, before he was sent to Satellite Camp, where he survived the evacuation and death march to the Camp at Wöbbelin. His prisoner number was the 37569. Here are a few quotes from his testimony: (1) “Suddenly: ‘Los, schnell, kleidungskammer gehen’ (Come on, quickly, to the clothing store) and at a run, we arrive at the clothing block, and we file past stalls piled high with all kinds of clothes that ‘stink’ of disinfectant. Prisoners handed us a shirt, underpants, a jacket, a hat, trousers, slippers and two strips of fabric with a red triangle marked with a black F and a prisoner number.” (2) “An SS officer enters the block. The first to see the uniform shouts a thunderous ‘Achtung!’ (Attention). All prisoners must stand up and remain motionless, not even sneezing while this hero of the Reich struts among us. Once the visit is over, I have to run to the toilets to relieve myself. Once that's done, what do I use to wipe myself? There's nothing to satisfy this need. I tear off the piece of cloth […] and... make do with it. But I'll have to organise myself for the future.” (3)“But one day, around 9 o'clock, I had an accident and got my leg stuck between two wagons. I had to wait for the Commando to return in the evening, leaning on a spade as a cane for eight hours. At the camp, I was taken to the infirmary. An application of ointment, a paper bandage and a pair of crutches were the only treatment I received. After a week, the crutches were taken away and I had to hop on one leg to the washbasin or the toilet.”

30/01/2026

in 1919 Bernard Ansquer was born. He was captured in France, probably for against the N***s, and was imprisoned in Compiègne. On the 31.07.1944 he was deported to . There he got the prisoner number 40499. There is no further information about his imprisonment available here. His trace is lost at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. He was 25 years old when his trace got lost.

29/01/2026

29/01/2026

in 1922 Luis Miralles Casadó was born in Riudecanyes (Tarragona, Spain). On the 03.02.1939, he crossed the French border at Le Perthus with his family. He got captured and was imprisoned in various camps in France until he was deported to Belfort on the 03.08.1944. On the 26.08.1944 he was deported to -Natzweiler Concentration Camp under the prisoner number 23991. Only a few days after he was sent to Concentration Camp, were he got the prisoner number 102173 and, finally, on 22.101944, he arrived at Concentration Camp, where he got assigned to the prisoner number 62097. From Neuengamme, he was transferred to the satellite camp. There in 1943 the Steinöl GmbH was founded as a subsidiary of the German Asphalt Group. Prisoners of various nationalities from the Neuengamme concentration camp were forced to set up an experimental factory for the company around four kilometres outside of Schandelah. The goal was to extract, process and sell combined petroleum. Starting in May 1944, a prisoner work detail continuously quarried oil shale in an open-cast mine. A second, larger group of around 100 prisoners laid railway tracks in the factory grounds and built a railway siding leading to the Schandelah train station. Other commandos carried out excavation and concrete work, and some prisoners also worked in a chalk and cement factory. In early April, evacuation transports from the Porta Westfalica camps reached Schandelah, bringing the total number of prisoners to around 1,300. On 10 April, all of the prisoners were taken in goods cars via Magdeburg, Stendal and Wittenberge to the “reception camp” near . The train arrived there on 13 April, but the prisoners had to spend another two days in the cars before they finally entered the camp, which was already overcrowded and lacking food and supplies. According to accounts from former prisoners, at least 200 prisoners from the Schandelah satellite camp did not survive their imprisonment. The survivors were liberated by American troops on 2. May 1945. Luis Miralles Casadó was among those who got liberated, but still the months prior in German concentration camps led to his death on the 5. May 1945 in Ludwigslust. He was 23 years old.

28/01/2026

in 1915 Stefania Kawliska was born in Poland. It is unknown to us, why she was imprisoned by the N***s. On the 29.08.1944 she was imprisoned and registered at . On the 24.10.1944 she was transferred to one of Neuengammes Satellite Camps and got the prisoner number 9222 in Neuengamme. At the moment of her imprisonment, all personal belongings were taken from the prisoners. In Stefanias case she had to hand over her beautiful earrings, that became her "effects". Effects used to mean baggage or movable property in general. But in the context of World War II, effects were the personal items that prisoners had to hand over when they arrived at a prison or concentration camp. In April 1945 in Neuengamme head of the camp administration, ordered to find storage space for the property of prisoners held in Neuengamme and its satellite camps. Due to being the home town of the responsible N**i, some of the personal effects from Neuengamme Prisoners ended up in the Bowling Alley of an Inn in Lunden, where they were discovered and secured by the British army after liberation, and if possible returned to their owners. In some cases the owner and their family could not have been found until today. The Project from the tries to find the families for returning the personal belongings. In the case of Stefania Kawliska, the earrings have not been returned yet. We do not know, what happened to her after being registered in the Neuengamme Camp System.