The move to the site of the former ghetto camp is a long-awaited step for the memorial and the NS Documentation Center in Bonn. With an exhibition developed according to the latest standards and current educational formats, they can find an appropriate home there at the historical site. The camp is a unique feature for a memorial site in Germany. As a memorial site, the historic buildings will be of supra-regional, national and international importance in the future.
To the monastery
The Mariahilf Convent of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration was confiscated by the Gestapo in 1941; the nuns had to leave the convent immediately. From early summer 1941, 497 Jews were interned here and deported from there to concentration and extermination camps in 1942 - only 13 of those deported from here survived. The camp was organized by the Nazi authorities as a ghetto camp with forced Jewish self-administration.