KZ-Buchenwald

[CARL]

Today, April 11th 2016, marks the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald. Details of the commemorative events at and around the site are featured below:

News detail - Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

Carl

[CARL]

Another year passes...it is now 73 years since the camp was liberated.

[Rakkasan187]

We shall hold our Holocaust Awareness and Observance Ceremony on April 12, 2018 with the students of the United States Army Sergeant's Major Academy..

May we never forget all who were lost...

Shalom

Smitty

[CARL]

74 years since the liberation is marked today…

11th April 1945

The 37th Tank Battalion of the 4th U.S. Armored Division reaches the Buchenwald concentration camp. After the SS flee, inmates of the camp resistance occupy the towers and take charge of the order and administration of the camp. 21,000 inmates have lived to see their liberation and the arrival of the U.S. Army.

Between the beginning of the year and 11th April 1945, some 15,000 people have died in KL-Buchenwald. After the liberation, hundreds more perish from the consequences of their imprisonment. There are no records of the deaths that have taken place on the evacuation transports and "death marches". Tens of thousands are driven out in the direction of Theresienstadt, Dachau and Floßenbürg. Estimated deaths from the evacuations lie between 12,000 and 15,000.

By the end of the war, Buchenwald has become the largest concentration camp within the German Reich. Over 56,000 people died there.


Edited from the Buchenwald memorial website

[CARL]

Yesterday, April 11th 2020, marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the major camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora.

[Garandy]

Gifts from a survivor as he knew I collected

[CARL]

Earlier this week, another year passed since the camp was liberated.

Various digital records of remembrance can be found in the link below:

liberation.buchenwald.de - Liberation Buchenwald & Mittebau-Dora