Holocaust Memorials - Monuments, Museums and Institutions in Commemoration of Nazi Victims

in detail

Shortly after the National Socialists seized power, the Hamburg state police established a concentration camp in the Fuhlsbüttel prison in Hamburg. The camp was officially opened on September 4, 1933 as a concentration camp of the Hamburg state judicial system. Over two hundred and fifty men and women were killed there during the Nazi years.In 1936, the Fuhlsbüttel Concentration Camp was also designated as a police prison to "avert acts of incitement and horror" where resistance fighters, including foreigners, Jews, Gypsies, beggars, homosexuals, and prostitutes were incarcerated. For many of the prisoners, the "Kola-Fu" was a waiting station before they were transferred to other concentration camps. Even the penitentiaries were incorporated into the Nazi persecution system. Prisoners, as well as others, were condemned to concentration camps. From October 1944 to February 1945, the SS used a wing of the building as a Neuengamme satellite camp. Two hundred prisoners died there.

The Fuhlsbüttel Concentration Camp Memorial Museum has been located in the entrance building of the prison, a two-towered gatehouse, since 1987. A commemorative plaque in the entrance area names the prisoners who were killed. An exhibition at the first floor addresses the history of the camps and the fate of its prisoners. Original objects and a reconstructed solitary cell are a part of the documentation.

1933-1945
Concentration camp in which over 250 men and women are murdered. From 1936 Police prison for resistance fighters, including foreigners, and the Nazi defined "asocials", "anti-social parasites" and Jews.

From 1942
Prisoners in "protective custody" are transferred to a concentration camp.

October 1944 - February 1945
A wing of the prison building is used as a satellite concentration camp to Neuengamme.

1987
The memorial museums opens.