Landwerk Neuendorf im Sande (Steinhöfel)

In the Landwerk Neuendorf im Sande, to which about 375 hectares of land belonged, lived and worked young people and adults between 16 and 40 years, including some families with their young children. Exact figures are not known for the individual years. 
For 1936, 150 apprentices or retrainees were counted. In this hachshara (in Hebrew, "preparation," or "making fit")-camp, founded in 1932, young people were prepared for escape from Germany. Many who were able to complete their training succeeded in escaping from Germany after their training, either individually or in organized groups.  Between 1932 and 1938, there were about 1,200 young people.
The National Socialists allowed this to happen in the first years of their rule, the main thing being that as many Jews as possible were thereby forced out of Germany. Since 1941 Neuendorf had become a Nazi forced labor and collection camp for deportations. In April 1943, there were still about 80 people in the Neuendorf camp, among them the Montesssori educator Clara Grunewald, who worked there as an educator and was later deported to the extermination camp KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered. The young people who remained at Landwerk Neuendort were taken to Auschwitz, the older ones to Theresienstadt on collective transports from Berlin.