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17th-century Agathenburg Castle which is now a museum and cultural venue
Horneburg is a municipality southwest of Hamburg (Germany) in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony.
Horneburg is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Horneburg.
[edit] History
During WWII a concentration camp was established in Horneburg. [1] It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp. From Oktober 1944 until February 1945 about 200 Hungarian Jewish women and 50 Dutch women were forced to work for the Philips-Valvo-Röhrenwerke. Especially the Dutch women were also forced to work in the port of Horneburg. The Hungarian women were coming from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the Dutch women transported from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Mid-February 1945 the SS deported the women to the subcamp Porta Westfalica. 300 Hungarian women coming from a subcamp of Groß Rosen and Auschwitz were transported to Horneburg on February 24, 1945. These women were transported to Bergen-Belsen on April 8, 1945, where they arrived on April 11. [2]
[edit] Memorial
On October 22, 1997 a memorial stone with a plaque were installed at the location of the camp, at the street crossing Vordamm/Auedamm, Horneburg. [2]
[edit] See also
- ^ The camp is listed as No. 636 Horneburg, Kreis Stade (District Stade) in the official German list.
- ^ a b Memorial Neuengamme website
[edit] References
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