Buchenwald Memorial Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Museum Zwangsarbeit im NS
Auf dem Bild sieht man das Logo der Initiative "weltoffenes Thüringen". Das Logo setzt sich aus abgerundeten Speren in Rot, Orange, Gelb, Blau, Grün und Lila zusammen.

Weltoffenes Thüringen Initiative

Nicht nur wir sind in Sorge um die Demokratie und die Achtung der Menschenwürde in unserem Land. Daher engagieren sich über 7.000 Organisationen und Menschen aus dem gesamten Freistaat in der Initiative »Weltoffenes Thüringen«. Wir treten ein für:

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A long row of shelves in the deep magazine

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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Online Magazine Zu sehen sind zwei Männer die vor einem Torbogen stehen.

Form follows function Interview mit Andreas Froese

Der neue Leiter der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora über seine Ziele der zukünftigen Gedenkstättenarbeit

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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.

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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
Das Cover ist schwarz und zeigt die Buchstaben des Titels in einem rasterartigen Muster angeordnet. In der obersten Reihe die Buchstaben "DRÜB", darunter "ERUN", "DDRU" und "NTER".

Drüber und Drunter. Wortbildarbeiten von Klaus Steinke Buch des Monats

Klaus Steinkes „Überschreibungen“ thematisieren das Spannungsfeld eines Kanons der deutschen Literatur, wie er in den fünfziger Jahren, aber auch weitgehend in der Zeit der deutschen Verbrechen zwischen 1933 und 1945 galt.

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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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Events

Public tour
25.04.2024, 17:00 PM‒19:00 PM
Roland statue in front of Nordhausen town hall

Nordhausen under National Socialism

Reading
29.04.2024, 19:00 PM‒21:00 PM
Weimar, mon ami, Kleinkunstbühne

„Allein gegen Hitler“ – Buchvorstellung mit Wolfgang Benz

Reading
06.05.2024, 20:00 PM‒22:00 PM
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar: Foyer

„Buchstaben von Feuer“

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Aktuelle Meldungen

How to deal with a difficult past? Pädagogische Perspektiven auf Nationalsozialismus, Shoa und den Zweiten Weltkrieg.

Ein Fachseminar für (angehende) Lehrer:innen in den Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Sachsenhausen (18.-24. Juli 2024) und Auschwitz-Birkenau (2.-6. Oktober 2024)

Mourning the death of Pierre Marc Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp survivor

We mourn the loss of Pierre Marc, a survivor of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. He died on 16 April this year in his home town of Saint-Claude (Jura) a few weeks before his 100th birthday.

Guy Morand was arrested for his activities in the French Resistance and was sent to Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp via Compiègne and Buchenwald. After his liberation in Bergen-Belsen, he was actively involved in the Comité de la Résistance et de la Déportation des Alpes-Maritimes.

Mourning the death of Guy Morand Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp survivor

We mourn the loss of Guy Morand, survivor of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. He died in Cannes on 2 April this year.

Guy Morand was arrested for his activities in the French Resistance and was sent to Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp via Compiègne and Buchenwald. After his liberation in Bergen-Belsen, he was actively involved in the Comité de la Résistance et de la Déportation des Alpes-Maritimes.
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