The Janusz-Korczak-School Memorial and the Rose Garden for the Children of Bullenhuser Damm Bullenhuser Damm 92 20539 Hamburg Phone: +49 40 / 4 28 96 03 The Janusz-Korczak-School Memorial: Opening Times: Thursday 14.00 - 20.00 Hrs Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 Hrs Admission Free. Directions: Public Transport: S2 or S21 Rothenburgsort The Rose Garden for the Children of Bullenhuser Damm: Always open. The Janusz-Korczak-School Memorial: No. 92 Bullenhuser Damm. Medical experiments with tuberulosis bacteria were conducted on inmates of Neuengamme Concentration Camp by the SS doctor Dr. Kurt Heißmeyer. In November 1944 he had twenty Jewish children, ten girls and ten boys, brought from Auschwitz Concentration Camp to Neuengamme Concentration Camp for this purpose. Two of the twenty Jewish children used for medical experiments. The children were in the care of four prisoners, two French doctors Professor René Quenouille and Gabriel Florence, and two Dutch male nurses Anton Hölzel and Dirk Deutekom. Shortly before the end of the war the SS attempted to conceal the crime. They took the children with their four attendants to a school building in the war devastated district of Rothenburgsort that had, from October 1944, been used as an annexe to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. It was here that they murdered them. On the 20th April 1945, shortly before the German armed forces capitulated the children were anaesthetized, and hanged, in the cellar of the school. These are the names of the child victims: Girls: Altmann, 5 years old, Polish. Lelka Birnbaum, 12 years old, Polish. Goldinger, 11 years old, Polish. Riwka Herszberg, 7 years old, Polish. L. Klygermann, 8 years old, Polish. Mekler, 11 years old, Polish. Jacqueline Morgenstern, 12 years old, French. H. Wassermann, 8 years old, Polish. Witónska, 5 years old, Polish. Rachela Zylberberg, 10 years old, Polish. Boys: Sergio Desimone, 7 years old, Italian. Desmonie, 7 years old, Polish. Alexander Hornemann, 8 years old, Dutch. Eduard Hornemann, 12 years old, Dutch. James, 6 years old, Polish. Junglieb, 12 years old, Yugoslavian. Georges André Kohn, 12 years old, French. Reichenbaum, 10 years old, Polish. Marek Steinbaum, 10 years old, Polish. R. Zeller, 12 years old, Polish. 24 soviet prisoners were murdered on the same spot only a few hours later. The Janusz-Korczak-School Memorial was opened in 1980 and is situated in the former school- building at Bullenhuser Damm. On the staircase of the school hangs a large picture by Professor Jügen Waller which bears the title "21 April 1945, 5 a.m." and shows the scene of the murder on the morning after. The room in which the children were murdered is preserved in its original state. In 1994 a permanent exhibition documenting the fate of the murdered children was opened in an adjoining room. Also documented is the undertaking by private individuals in the 1970's and 1980's to investigate and bring to light the heinous crime. They also investigated the reason for the delay in the criminal procedure preferred against the SS officer Arnold Strippel who had led the murder unit. The Rose Garden for the Children of Bullenhuser Damm: The Association "Kinder von Bullenhuser Damm e.V." have laid a rose garden behind the school so that anyone who wishes may plant a rose in the memory of the murdered children.   Rose Garden. In 1982 the Association "Kinder von Bullenhuser Damm e.V." proposed the laying of a garden of remembrance. The rose garden was created by the Hamburg artist Lili Fischer (born 1947) in 1985. The rose garden is separated from the neighbouring arterial road by a fence with pilasters. A weeping willow tree has been planted among rosebeds and juniper bushes. An octagonal pergola, with benches, occupies the centre of the garden, and invites the visitor to pause and reflect. Relatives of the murdered, maltreated children have erected small personal memorial plaques in granite, with portrait photographs of the children in porcelain, and words of commemoration to the individual children, on the pilasters of the fence. Simple wooden plaques have been erected at the entrance of the garden which elucidate, in the eight national languages of the child victims, the origin of the memorial. Visitors are invited to plant a rose in remembrance. Outside the garden, near the entrance, the Soviet Ministry of Culture have erected the Moscow born artist Anatolij Mossijtschuk's figurative bronze sculpture as a memorial to the murdered Soviet prisioners of war. The rose garden is always open. Literature: Günther Schwarberg: Der SS-Arzt und die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm, Steidl Verlag, Düstere Straße 4, 3400 Göttingen