An exhibition concept is to be developed in cooperation with external partners. Since the exhibition is intended to arouse the interest of young people in particular, the conception will be carried out in cooperation with interested partners from schools and/or universities. The implementation and the design of the exhibition will be outsourced.

In a permanent exhibition, the focus will be on the convicts and prisoners of war (POWs) and their hard living and working conditions, because they were the ones who guaranteed the commercial peat extraction in Himmelmoor. The focus will be especially on the time of National Socialism, on the POWs living here as well as civilian forced labourers in World War II. As the story of more than 50 Jewish POWs of Work Detachment 1416 is the one researched best so far, it will be given priority.

For the permanent exhibition research on various subject areas still needs to be carried out and will be outsourced.

Contents

The premises are intended to allow visitors to experience and feel the living conditions of the prisoners, the confines of the space, the cold, the poor hygienic conditions, surveillance and isolation.

The toilet rooms with concrete toilets without flushing and the washroom, which currently shows one sink, give an impression of hygienic conditions.

In the large room used as bedroom and living room for the prisoners, in one part of the room the narrowness of the space is to be made tangible with the help of existing furniture such as beds, cupboards, tables.

In another area of the large room, the origin of the Jewish prisoners, their situation and living and working conditions are to be presented using analogous information material.

• In addition, the biographies (life stories) of individual Jewish prisoners (as far as they can be researched) will be presented, with the stations of their captivity. Through the depiction of individual fates the prisoners are given a face. Getting to know what they experienced makes their situation more tangible for visitors.

• In addition to the Belgian Henri Goldstein, mainly French prisoners were assigned to Work Detachment 1416. Several sources provide names for which more research is required. The lives of Henri Goldstein, Henri Samuel and Ernest Guggenheim have already been researched and can be displayed.

• A mirror on the back of which prisoners wrote their names and which is currently kept at the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg, is to be included in the exhibition.

The room of the camp commandant  will exhibit a presentation of the role of the commando leaders in the prison camp.

• Lists of regulations and instructions for the treatment of forced labourers and POWs will be displayed. In addition, information on the local commanders, such as Werner Rohde, will be submitted, as well as information on how the crimes during the Nazi era were prosecuted in the post-war period (trials, convictions).

• Further information will examine the sojourn of forced labourers as well as civilian victims of the Nazi dictatorship in Quickborn and illuminate the post-war history and the coming to terms with the Nazi period.

The sickroom  of the Henri-Goldstein-Haus will present

• information on other POW work detachments and forced labourers who were lodged on this site in World War II (Russians, Poles, Norwegians, among others), as well as on POWs of World War I.

• In a camp consisting of six barracks with watchtowers (postcard of Quickborn), set up directly behind the set of houses, 500 Russian POWs are said to have been accomodated.

The guards‘ room is dedicated to the convicts of the correctional facilities in the Himmelmoor outpost. Already in World War I convicts from prison penitentiaries in the area were used as workers. In the years of the Great Depression also so-called compulsory labourers (unemployed beneficiaries) came to work in Himmelmoor.