Hinzert Concentration Camp Memorial

Welcome to Hinzert Concentration Camp Memorial

Dr S. Arend

‘The whole of Europe was here’

A place of remembrance with a European dimension The SS Special Camp/Hinzert Concentration Camp Memorial, sponsored by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Centre for Political Education, commemorates crimes committed at the SS Special Camp/Hinzert Concentration Camp between 1939 and 1945. Prisoners from 20 nations and for various reasons were imprisoned in the Hinzert SS special camp/camp. A permanent exhibition documents this period. In keeping with the European significance of the former concentration camp, visitors to the documentation and meeting centre can find out about the history of the camp and its special function in the National Socialist concentration camp system, as well as about the victims and perpetrators, via an audio guide system in German, English, French and Dutch. Numerous interviews with contemporary witnesses complement the texts, photographs and original exhibits.

Next to the documentation and meeting centre is the cemetery with graves of former prisoners, which was established by the French military government in 1946. The memorial to former prisoner Lucien Wercollier characterises the site, which also includes a chapel of atonement built in 1948. Information boards in the memorial cemetery and at various ‘sites of inhumanity’ in the surrounding woods point out memorial stones, former mass graves, execution sites and places of forced labour at the SS special camp / Hinzert concentration camp. Dogs can be kept on a lead at the memorial site.

Source: DataHub Rheinland-Pfalz