Memorial stone at the former Sasel satellite camp

In 1982, a memorial stone was erected on the site of the former women’s satellite camp of Neuengamme in Sasel (on the corner of Feldblumenweg and Petunienweg). It was initiated by students from the Oberalster Secondary School, who had first researched the camp’s history as part of a school project and published their findings in a brochure in 1980/81. The Begegnungsstätte Poppenbüttel, a community initiative run by residents of Alstertal, maintains the green area around the memorial stone and organizes an event there each year on 27 January to commemorate the Sasel satellite camp.

The text on the black plaque installed by the Hamburg Cultural Authority as part of its ‘Sites of Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945’ programme reads:

‘500 Jewish women were imprisoned in a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp at this site between September 1944 and the end of the war. They had been taken to Hamburg from Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 to perform slave labour. The women were forced to work producing prefabricated concrete houses near the Poppenbüttel station and in several factories.
In early April 1945, the SS took the prisoners to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. From 21 April 1945, the camp was used to house non-Jewish female prisoners who had been evacuated from the Beendorf satellite camp. By the end of the war 29 of these prisoners had lost their lives.’

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Gedenkstätte Plattenhaus Poppenbüttel