Annual Magazine 2022 Buchenwald Memorial Mittelbau-Dora Memorial
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Schwerpunkt 2023: Antiziganistische Verfolgung im Nationalsozialismus. Alle Ausgaben unserer Zeitschrift nun auch als Online-Magazin.

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Digitization Further development of the database systems

In September 2021, a project was initiated to digitalize core portions of the archive, library, and museological collections. Through this project, we aim to make sources on the history of the concentration camp and the site's subsequent use accessible...

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A map of the area around Nordhausen showing the locations of subcamps of the concentration camp.

Mittelbau Subcamps Information and Memorial Site

In April 1945, the Mittelbau concentration camp complex consisted of 39 subcamps. The portal makes information about each individual subcamps accessible.

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In the foreground there is a white-grey-orange information desk on which explanations are offered in various languages. Furthermore, on all sides are cutouts of a photograph of Burgenland Roma in prisoners' clothing. To the left of the stele is a speaker at a microphone. In the background, a crowd of people can be seen looking in the direction of the speaker.

"Geschichte. Bewusst. Machen." (History. Made. Conscious) A path through Buchenwald

The examination of the history of Buchenwald Concentration Camp is supported by many different people and initiatives. Together with them, the memorial designs the "History. Made. Concious". A path through Buchenwald".

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Screenshot of the homepage of the Digital Photo Archive of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial. A large photo shows a prisoner in striped clothing sitting against a concrete wall.

Online Photo Archive KZ Mittelbau-Dora

After 1945, the photographic images of Mittelbau-Dora were scattered around the world. After many years of research in Germany and abroad, the photos were systematically collected, evaluated, and digitally indexed.

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Forced Labor under National Socialism Companion volume to the traveling exhibition

For the first time, the exhibition tells the entire story of Nazi forced labor and its consequences after 1945, showing that forced labor was a mass phenomenon: 20 million people were forced to perform forced labor for Nazi Germany in almost all of...

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A man sits at a listening station in the Buchenwald permanent exhibition, looking at a display case while wearing headphones on his ears.

Lebens­geschichten From the exhibition: "Buchenwald. Ostracism and Violence 1937 to 1945" (2016)

More than 80 life and persecution stories, processed as concise audio features, illustrate the composition of the prisoner society of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

To the audios in the media library of buchenwald.de

Donations for victims of Nazi persecution in Ukraine

The current war in Ukraine has left many people in great need. Among those suffering are also the survivors of National Socialist persecution. They need our help now more than ever, so that vital basics such as warmth, food and medical care can be ensured, but also reconstruction work can be supported.

You can donate through our aid network for victims of Nazi persecution!

Online Magazine Aktivist, der Protestschild hochhält, umringt von vielen Leuten vor dem Obersten Gerichtsof in Moskau

"Gedenken ohne Wissen" The Soviet special camp in memorial culture after the fall of the Wall

The project works from the assumption that memories of the GDR are not only defined by individual and collective experiences during the GDR period itself but also by personal biographies of profound upheaval following the fall of the Wall. The political...

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A wooden door made of rough beams. A window in it is barred with wide iron bars.

Gulag. Traces and testimonies 1929-1956 Online Exhibitions

The exhibition website presents selected biographies and objects from the Soviet camp system that the human rights organisation "Memorial" has been collecting from all over the former Soviet Union since the 1980s.

To the Website ausstellung-gulag.de
Path made of concrete slabs under trees. The exhibition building is built into a kind of embankment.

Escape Special exhibition in the firehouse

A look at the escapes made by inmates from the Mittelbau-Dora complex of concentration camps demonstrates that the German population was indeed directly confronted with the mass crimes of the Nazis during the war. Presenting stories of escapes, the...

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Blog #otd1945 The Final Months of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camps

Starting in January, the blog #otd1945 (“on this day 1945”) will take a day-by-day look at what was going on in the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps 76 years ago. In early 1945, many concentration camp inmates hoped liberation was well...

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"Regrettably and notwithstanding our experience of National Socialism, human rights, democracy, and freedom can by no means be taken for granted. They have to be defended over and again. And, we are thoroughly committed to defending them."
Thuringian Declaration, 11th April 2020
To the website of the 75th anniversary of the liberation
Eva Fahidi

Éva Fahidi-Pusztai has passed away 11.09.2023

We will sorely miss her wisdom and warmth. The staff of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation mourn the loss of a dear friend.

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An Gefäßen für das Essen gab es nichts Book of the month

How does recent research explain the Stalinist terror and the system of Soviet penal and forced labour camps? What distinguishes the Gulag from the Nazi concentration and extermination camps?

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Online Magazine Ausstellungsansicht (Aufsteller) in der Bibliothek der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Rosa Winkel. Wanderausstellung

Etwa 700 Männer wurden im Nationalsozialismus als Homosexuelle in die Konzentrationslager Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora verschleppt. Dort mussten sie auf ihrer Häftlingskleidung zur Kennzeichnung einen rosa Winkel tragen. Im Unterschied zu anderen...

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Screenshot of the web app Dingen auf der Spur. (Traces of things).

Figuring things out New Web app

The Web App offers a first approach to concentration camp history by means of historical objects. The interactive exploration of these object stories, partly designed with 3D scans, offers exciting insights into the life of the object owner.

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A hand-carved signpost to the Buchenwald SS barracks and Buchenwald concentration camp on Carachoweg. Above the lettering you can see figures carved out of wood. Left: SS soldiers, right: an SS man driving three people in front of him. The figures are depicted as a monk, priest, and man with suit and hat.

Black on White Photographs from Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937 - 1945

The photo exhibition Black on White is the first virtual presentation of the pictorial history of a concentration camp. At the same time, it aims to make visible the context in which the photos were taken and the photographers who took them.

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GULAG - Texte und Dokumente 1929-1956 Book of the month

How does recent research explain the Stalinist terror and the system of Soviet penal and forced labour camps? What distinguishes the Gulag from the Nazi concentration and extermination camps?

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Events

Conference
09.10.2023 – 12.10.2023
4 p.m.
University of Jena / Buchenwald Memorial

To tear these images from time

Film and discussion
18.10.2023
19 Uhr
Lichthaus Kino Weimar

„Die Zeit der Stille”

Lecture and discussion
20.10.2023
18 Uhr
STADTMUSEUM WEIMAR

Das Gedenk-Projekt „Letzte Adresse“

News

Nordhausen town hall

Statement on the mayoral election Nordhausen

The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation reacts with relief to the outcome of the run-off mayoral election in the city of Nordhausen. The election of Kai Buchmann makes it possible to continue the trustful cooperation between the...

Reflexionen 2023 erschienen Unser neues Online-Magazin

Schwerpunkt: Antiziganistische Verfolgung im Nationalsozialismus. Alle Beiträge der Printausgaben nun auch in unserem Online-Magazin.

Survivors' associations on the mayoral election in Nordhausen Statements

International survivors' associations and prisoners' organisations express concern about the upcoming mayoral election in Nordhausen.
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