DIZ Emslandlager

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Documentation and Information Center Emslandlager
(DIZ Emslandlager)
purpose Establishment of a memorial to research, process and present the history of the camp in the Emsland during the National Socialist era
Chair: Habbo bone
Establishment date: 1981
Number of members: 360
Seat : 26871 Papenburg
Website: www.diz-emslandlager.de

The documentation and information center Emslandlager emerged from the action committee for a DIZ Emslandlager eV, which was founded in 1981 with substantial support from former bog soldiers and prisoners of the Emslandlager . It is a private, non-profit association. The association deals with the history of the Emsland camps, elaborates the National Socialist past using this regional example and includes in its historical work also dealing with undemocratic developments and neo-fascist dangers of the present.

history

First temporary permanent exhibition

Efforts to set up a memorial at the historical locations of the event (e.g. on the site of the former Esterwegen camp , which was used by the Bundeswehr) initially failed. That is why a house was rented in Papenburg in 1985 and a temporary permanent exhibition was set up.

"From the beginning, the work is supported by former prisoners, both politically and financially as well as by submitting personal documents, letters and postcards, drawings or carvings made in the camps."

- Flyer of the DIZ

Establishment of the permanent exhibition in 1993

The Emsland presented with financial support from the state of Lower Saxony and the city of Papenburg the DIZ a new building. The opening took place in September 1993 as part of an international meeting of former prisoners. Text boards and lecterns on the subject of “camp life” were set up here. Numerous exhibits showed the history of the camps and their prisoners. In a second exhibition room, special exhibitions from other institutions and own exhibitions on various National Socialist aspects were alternately offered.

Esterwegen memorial

From 2009 a new memorial was set up on the site of the former Esterwegen camp . Their design is intended to create the impression of an endless moor landscape, a "desolate heather". The death strips are made visible through the different grain sizes of the gravel on the paths.

After three years of construction, the memorial was reopened on October 31, 2011 on the site of the former Esterwegen concentration and prison camp, which represents all 15 Emsland camps. They existed from 1933 to 1945 in varying functions up to the Grafschaft Bentheim . The memorial was officially inaugurated in a festive ceremony in the presence of Lower Saxony's Prime Minister David McAllister.

The cost of erecting the memorial in the amount of 5.8 million euros was shared by the federal government (2.5 million euros), the district of Emsland , Lower Saxony and various Lower Saxony foundations.

With the opening of the memorial, the DIZ Emslandlager gave up its location in Papenburg after 26 years of memorial work. Since then, the employees have been working together with the Esterwegen Memorial Foundation in Esterwegen.

literature

  • The Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Emslandlager in Papenburg, In Search of the Moorsoldaten, DIZ flyer, undated
  • Boldt, Werner: About an attempt to organize memory: Project Emslandlager. - 1st edition In: History in Public: Conference of the Conference for History Didactics from 5. – 8. October 1977 in Osnabrück / on behalf of the conference ed. by Wilhelm van Kampen… - Stuttgart: Klett, 1979. - pp. 41–54. - ISBN 3-12-920221-8 - (Notes and arguments on historical and political education; 23)
  • Brandt, Susanne: "The spiritual world knows no barbed wire here": Literature in the Emsland camps. In: DIZ-Nachrichten / Action Committee for a Documentation and Information Center Emslandlager eV - Papenburg. 2003, No. 24, pp. 46-49: Ill.
  • Emslandlager: to the "war cemetery", to the armed forces depot, to the penal institution, to the potato field ... / by Werner Boldt ... - 1st edition, 1st - 5th thousand. In: The forgotten KZs ?: Memorials for the victims of Nazi terror in of the Federal Republic / Detlef Garbe [ed.]. With contributions by: Werner Boldt .. - Bornheim-Merten: Lamuv-Verl., 1983. - pp. 69–92 - (Lamuv-Taschenbuch; 26)
  • Kurt Buck, In Search of the Moor Soldiers. The Emslandlager 1933–1945 and the historical places today, Papenburg, 6th edition 2008, available from DIZ, Postfach 1132, 26851 Papenburg
  • Buck, Kurt: The new documentation and information center Emslandlager (DIZ) in Papenburg. In: End of the War and Liberation / [Ed .: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Ed .: Kurt Buck…]. - Bremen: Ed. Temmen, 1995. - pp. 154-156. - ISBN 3-86108-266-7 - (Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany; 2)
  • Knoch, Habbo: Re .: Esterwegen: Plans for a new memorial to the history of the Emsland camps. In: DIZ-Nachrichten / Action Committee for a Documentation and Information Center Emslandlager eV - Papenburg. 2006, No. [26], pp. 10-14: Ill.
  • Suhr, Elke; Boldt, Werner: Camp in Emsland 1933–1945: History and Remembrance. - Oldenburg: library u. Information system d. Univ., 1985. - 76 pages: Ill., Kt. - (Cooperation between trade unions and universities; 6)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see text of the song Die Moorsoldaten (Lagerlied von Börgermoor). Action committee DIZ Emslandlager in the Esterwegen memorial, 1933, accessed on October 20, 2019 . Text of the Moorsoldatenlied
  2. ^ Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann opens the Esterwegen Memorial. In: Archives of bundesregierung.de. Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, October 31, 2011, accessed on October 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Esterwegen Memorial. October 6, 2011, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ memorials. June 6, 2011, accessed October 20, 2019 .