April 2020 • Page 9 of 17 • NA BISTER

Hamburg (exhibition, Lohseplatz)

Historical background See: Hamburg (plaque, Lohseplatz) Description of commemoration A white connex container was placed at Lohseplatz, the former…

Historical background The idea of resettling all Gypsies from Hamburg to one collective camp arose as early as 1937. The…

Historical background See also: Bremerhaven (plaque) During the war, the administrative division of the city, then called Wesermünde, looked a…

Historical background Description of commemoration On the wall of one of the campus buildings, near Kunsthalle at Karlsburg…

Historical background See: Oldenburg (memorial) Description of commemoration The road sign informs that the street we are on…

Historical background The memorial commemorates 74 Gypsies from Oldenburg who were deported to the death camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Among them were…

Historical background In 1943, the slaughterhouse was an assembly point to which the Roma and Sinti were brought before deportation.…

Historical background See: Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (camp) The Roma and Sinti are also mentioned on the miniature model in…

Historical background See: Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (camp) The preparations for erecting the main memorial began in 1947 and involved the…

Historical background In 1935, just after the Wehrmacht’s political and armed formation was recognised as the national armed forces of…

Historical background Similarly to other German cities, in Brunswick (German: Braunschweig) there was also a ghetto for the local Roma…