NFC zu H-0

ACTION

780 patients from the Lüneburg mental hospital were transferred to the killing centres in Brandenburg, Pirna-Sonnenstein, Hadamar and Pfafferode. More than 440 children and adolescents lost their lives in the »children’s ward«. Around 200 foreign patients were also murdered, mainly in the »foreigners‘ collection centre«; more than 60 of them were transferred to an unknown location in 1944 to be killed. Many patients also died of tuberculosis or starvation. Those in »preventive detention« were sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp. Forced sterilisation of well over 800 young people, women and men following decisions by the Lüneburg court, as well as forced abortions, were the beginning of these crimes.

The miniature is made of wood. It is a replica of house 24, a two-storey building. The bricks are red, grey and yellow. There are patterns in the brickwork above the windows. There is a two-storey bay window with a balcony and a half-timbered gable. The bay window and the beams in the gable are a light green colour. The roof is a red pointed roof. The building style is from the nineteenth century.

Model house, patient work, no provenance, after 1945.

ArEGL 174-7.

The Lüneburg »children’s ward« was located in buildings 23, 24 and 25. Building 24 was the last building into which the »children’s ward« moved and in which children were murdered.

ACTION

Forced sterilisation

Biographies Forced sterilisation and victims of »AKtion T4«

»Aktion T4«

Map of killing centres involved in »Aktion T4«

»Decentralised euthanasia«

»child euthanasia«

Map »Children’s departments«

Family and »Children’s department«

Research and the final years of the war

biographies »child euthanasia«

Patients from abroad

MAP »Foreigners‘ registration offices«

Biographies of patients from abroad

Scope for action

MULTIPLE MURDERS IN ONE FAMILY

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