{"id":3877,"date":"2006-04-24T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alst.org\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:29:36","slug":"newspaper-article-inauguration-memorial-concentration-camp-neuengamme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/monuments-and-memorials\/other-monuments-and-memorials\/newspaper-article-inauguration-memorial-concentration-camp-neuengamme\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWSPAPER ARTICLE INAUGURATION MEMORIAL CONCENTRATION CAMP NEUENGAMME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excerpt from an article printed in the daily&nbsp;<em>Bergdorfer Zeitung<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s our duty to remember!&#8221;<\/strong><br>Yesterday Karin von Welck, Senator for Cultural Affairs, inaugurated a monument as a tribute to the memory of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses who were inmates of the Neuengamme concentration camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/neuengamme-memorial-moyen.jpeg\" alt=\"Inauguration Memorial Concentration Camp Neuengamme\n\" class=\"wp-image-2088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/neuengamme-memorial-moyen.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/neuengamme-memorial-moyen-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Inauguration Memorial Concentration Camp Neuengamme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Witali Kostanda (left) and Richard Rudolph (right), survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp with Senator Karin von Welck and historian Detlef Garbe, director of the Camp Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neuengamme (hy).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They refused military service and declined to raise their arm in Hitlerian salute.&nbsp; They lived according to strict Biblical principles during the darkest chapter in German history.&nbsp; They were Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses.&nbsp; The Nazis sent more than 4,200 members of this group to concentration camps.&nbsp; Approximately half of the 200 Witnesses, who were inmates at the Neuengamme concentration camp from 1940-1945, succumbed to Nazi atrocities.&nbsp; Yesterday a monument to honour their memory was inaugurated at the Neuengamme Camp Memorial. (\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, who were hounded by the SS from 1933, were eyewitnesses of racial vanity and intolerance,&#8221; declared Karin von Welck.&nbsp; She added: &#8220;It is our duty to remember and take a stand.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t have the right to forget heinous crimes humans are capable of committing.&nbsp; I bow down before the victims whose memory we honour today.&#8221; (\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from an article printed in the daily&nbsp;Bergdorfer Zeitung &#8220;It&#8217;s our duty to remember!&#8221;Yesterday Karin von Welck, Senator for Cultural Affairs, inaugurated a monument as a tribute to the memory of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses who were inmates of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Witali Kostanda (left) and Richard Rudolph (right), survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,210,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-monuments-and-memorials","category-monuments-and-memorials","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}