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- Svend was active in the Danish resistance during World War II, was captured by the Germans, and died in Neuengamme Concentration Camp .
"The Neuengamme Memorial keeps only very few original documents, because the SS ordered all files to be destroyed shortly before the end of WW II. Thus there are large gaps in our knowledge about former prisoners. We do keep, though, some information about your relative in our archives.
". . . his date of death (25.02.1945) and the place (Bad Sassendorf/Soest), where he died. You also can find this information on our website about the Register of Deaths 1940-1945 (http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/en/history/death-register/deaths-1940-1945/ ). He worked in Bad Sassendorf as 11th SS Railway Construction Brigade. You can read here more about it ( http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/en/history/satellite-camps/satellite-camps/bad-sassendorf-11-ss-eisenbahnbaubrigade/ ). Maybe the archives in Soest has more information about Svend Nikolajsen ( stadtarchiv@soest.de)."
From Wikipedia:
"The Neuengamme concentration camp was a German concentration camp, established in 1938 by the SS near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. It was operated by the SS from 1938 to 1945. Over that period an estimated 106,000 prisoners were held at Neuengamme and at its subcamps; 14,000 perished in the main camp, 12,800 in the subcamps and 16,100 during the last weeks of the war on evacuation marches or due to bombing. The verified death toll is 42,900. After Germany's defeat in 1945, the British Army used the site until 1948 as an internment camp. In 1948, the facility was transferred to the Hamburg prison authority which tore down the camp huts and built a new prison cell block. After being operated as two prisons by the Hamburg authorities from 1950 to 2004, and a period of uncertainty, the site now serves as a memorial. It is situated 15 km southeast of the centre of Hamburg."
Last place of residence in DK was Kobenhavn.
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1914 - 1945 (30 years)
