Poppenbüttel Plattenhaus Memorial Kritenbarg 8 22391 Hamburg Phone: +49 40 / 428 96 03 (Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial) Opening Times: Sunday 15.00 - 17.00 Hrs, and by appointment. Admission Free. Diections: Public Transport: S1 or S11, Poppenbüttel Hamburg-Sasel Satellite Concentration Camp Between September 1944 and May 1945 a satellite camp of Neuengamme Concentration Camp existed in Hamburg-Sasel. 500 women, the majority being Jewish women from the Lodz Ghetto (Poland), but a number being political persecutees and Sinti, were brought from Auschwitz Concentration Camp to Sasel and were employed clearing bomb damage in the inner city and in constructing a prefabricated housing settlement in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel. The weakened and starving women were pressed to hard labour under the most difficult of conditions. Numerous women died through abuse, debilitation and illness. On 7. April 1945 the women were transported to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Following this in mid April 1944 women from the satellite camps of Hamburg-Langenhorn and Helmstedt-Beendorf were brought into the Sasel camp. Poppenbüttel Plattenhaus Memorial In 1985 the Memorial and Meeting Centre with its permanent exhibition of the Satellite Concentration Camp Sasel was opened in the left half of a former temporary dwelling that was erected in 1944 from prefabricated concrete slabs that were produced in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp brickworks. A wooden sculpture in the form of a peace-tree was positioned in front of the Poppenbüttel Plattenhaus Memorial in memory of all concentration camp prisoners and the horror of the Second World War. The memorial is administered by the "Arbeitsgemeimschaft Gedenkstätte Plattenhaus Poppenbüttel". 1944 Temporary Dwelling House The right half of the prefabricated building comprises a temporary dwelling as it would have looked in 1944. It shows the living conditions of those citizens that had been "bombed out". The former inhabitants were privileged employees of the local administration whose work affected the war. A livingroom, a bedroom and additional rooms are furnished from that time. An exhibition covering the theme of air-warfare, that includes the prefabricated houses and ordinary dwellings in Hamburg, is housed in a third room. Opening Times: Sunday 10.00 - 12.00 Hrs, and by appointment. During the Hamburg summer holidays by appointment only. Admission Free. Diections: Public Transport: S1 or S11 Poppenbüttel