Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres Commemorating the Victims of Nazi Crimes

Football in Hamburg under National Socialism: A History Romanticized for Decades | Exhibition
The primary focus of this exhibition is football in Hamburg, in all its aspects. How were the sport and its clubs changed by National Socialism and the war? The individual stories of players and club personnel, along with portraits of particular clubs, highlight the effects of Nazi sports policy, including bans and persecution, as well as the complicity of those involved. The later (and long overdue) reappraisal of what clubs and associations had done under National Socialism is also considered.

Dutch prisoners and football matches in Neuengamme concentration camp | Tour
To this day, it is a little known fact that football was also played in concentration camps. In addition to the prisoners’ football matches that took place on the former roll call area of the Neuengamme concentration camp, the tour offers starting points to talk about working and living conditions and hierarchies in the camp. The tour is carried out in Dutch.

Stories of persecution during National Socialism and the HSV | Tour
The history of the Hamburger Sport-Verein (HSV) is closely linked to Hamburg's Grindel district, the city’s historically Jewish district, and its surroundings. During the tour, biographies of persecuted HSV members will be told and their fates will be used to explore topics such as persecution, resistance, flight, deportation, and murder during National Socialism. In addition to Stolperstein (stumbling stones), there are also memorial plaques and places named after the persecuted that help us remember these stories. Therefore, the ongoing struggle for remembrance is also an important part of the tour.
The tour is organised in cooperation with the Netzwerk Erinnerungsarbeit and a part of www.fussballunderinnerung.de - a EURO24 project.
Guides: Netzwerk Erinnerungsarbeit (an association of people from HSV)
The tour will be held in English and is free of charge.

From a place of celebration to a place of injustice | Evening event
The participatory project “From a place of celebration to a place of injustice” (presented by Bastian Satthoff) takes an unusual look at sports and football fields: People from clubs, fan scenes and civic associations as well as interested individuals are researching the history of forced labour camps on football and sports fields in Germany and Austria.

From the Stadthaus to the Millerntor | Tour
How did football clubs like FC St. Pauli behave during National Socialism and how did their members behave? The tour leads from the historical town of Stadthaus through Hamburg-Neustadt to St. Pauli. It visits sites of Nazi terror between 1933 and 1945, but also places of resistance.

From the Stadthaus to the Millerntor | Tour
How did football clubs like FC St. Pauli behave during National Socialism and how did their members behave? The tour leads from the historical town of Stadthaus through Hamburg-Neustadt to St. Pauli. It visits sites of Nazi terror between 1933 and 1945, but also places of resistance.

A journey through the history of Jewish football in Hamburg | Evening Event
In the first decades of German football history, many Jewish men were part of football culture. Just a few weeks after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, many German gymnastics and sports clubs began to voluntarily exclude their Jewish members. Lorenz Peiffer’s lecture looks for Jewish traces in Hamburg’s football history.

Stories of persecution under National Socialism using the example of HSV | Tour
The history of Hamburger Sport-Verein is closely linked to Hamburg’s Grindel district and its surroundings. During a tour in cooperation with the Remembrance Work Network (association of HSV members), the biographies of persecuted HSV members are told and, based on their fates, topics such as persecution, resistance, escape, deportation and murder under National Socialism are discussed.

Football in concentration camps | Tour
To this day, little is known about the fact that football was played in concentration camps. The football matches played by prisoners on the former roll call square of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp provides a starting point for talking about working and living conditions as well als hierarchies within the camp.
Guide: Maren Degener
The tour will be held in German and English at the same time.

Remembrance work in football – in conversation with Paula Scholz from the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial | Evening Event
Whether it’s the HSV Remembrance Network or the Holocaust memorial days organised by the St. Pauli fan shop – remembering the victims of National Socialism plays a major role in the context of football. At the Stadthaus historical site, we talk to Paula Scholz, who is responsible for adult education at the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial, about why many people in football are politically involved and do remembrance work.