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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Buchenwald

Historian Jens-Christian Wagner looks into a book on September 2, 2024, in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany. (Clement Kasser/AFP)
September 4, 2024, 3:44 pm
Buchenwald memorial chief ‘upset and depressed’ over election win by far-right AfD
‘Maybe we will have to re-install a police station,’ worries Jens-Christian Wagner, after local victory by Alternative for Germany party raises specter of hate crimes, funding cuts
By Clement Kasser
Swastikas and other far-right symbols daubed on signs at the national memorial complex that stands at the site of the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on October 28, 2022. (Buchenwald Memorial)
October 28, 2022, 6:34 pm
Swastikas painted on signs at Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site
Foundation that runs memorial at former Nazi camp in Germany condemns ‘an abhorrent attack on the dignity of the Nazis’ victims and on our work’
By AP
Vandals cut down memorial trees at the former Nazi camp of Buchenwald in Germany, July 19, 2022. (Stiftg. Gedenkstätten Buchenwald u. Mittelbau-Dora via JTA)
July 25, 2022, 5:44 pm
Memorial at Buchenwald concentration camp site vandalized twice in a week
Nine beeches toppled or damaged in ‘cowardly act’; premier of German state of Thuringia vows to replant two trees for every one damaged
By AFP
Illustrative: From left: French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau plant a tree in memory of the death marches to the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, September 10, 2021. (Jens Schlueter/Pool Photo via AP)
July 21, 2022, 11:43 am
Trees dedicated to Holocaust victims chopped down at Buchenwald camp
‘Appalled at the deliberate attack on remembrance,’ memorial foundation says seven beeches were severed, one of which commemorated children killed at the Nazi camp
By AP
People stand between wreaths after a wreath laying ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, April 11, 2021. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
March 30, 2022, 8:23 am
Buchenwald Nazi camp memorial says Russian officials unwelcome at ceremony
Organizers cite death of camp survivor in shelling in Ukraine; invitations to go instead to civil society representatives for annual liberation remembrance next month
By AFP and ToI Staff
Boris Romantschenko appears at a memorial ceremony in Buchenwald in 2015. (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)
March 21, 2022, 8:49 pm
96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv
Boris Romantschenko, who was not Jewish, survived four concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald
By AFP
A view of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv on March 2, 2022. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 10:12 am
Holocaust survivors condemn Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim in Ukraine
Signatories to statement say Russian leader’s unacceptable justification of invasion as action against Nazis and alleged genocide only serves to ‘tarnish’ the words
By AFP and ToI Staff
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeiner delivers a speech during an event in Weimar, Germany, April 11, 2021 commemorating the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. (Ronny Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP)
April 11, 2021, 3:48 pm
Buchenwald camp a reminder of Nazi ‘barbarism,’ German president says
Marking 76th anniversary of concentration camp’s liberation, Frank-Walter Steinmeier says it stands for ‘racial fanaticism, torture, murder and elimination’
By AP
French Member of Parliament Olivier Dassault smiles as he arrives as he arrives for an official diner with the French President Francois Hollande and Defense Minister and Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
March 8, 2021, 12:39 am
French billionaire MP Olivier Dassault killed in helicopter crash
Dassault was grandson of famed French Jewish aeronautical engineer Marcel Bloch who survived being sent to Buchenwald death camp for refusing to help the Nazis
By AFP
The entrance to the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, eastern Germany, January 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
January 14, 2021, 9:34 pm
Winter sports at Buchenwald: Concentration camp slams sledders at mass graves
Site complains masses of daytrippers ‘disturb the peace of the dead’ with leisure activities at former Nazi camp; ‘Historical sensitivity is fading,’ says foundation director
By AFP
Lily Ebert, second-right, in the video reel taken by US troops while she was boarding a train after liberation of Buchenwald (Screen grab)
From the WebAugust 13, 2020, 1:20 pm
For 1st time, survivor, 96, sees clip of herself after Buchenwald liberation
Lily Ebert watches footage filmed by US troops in June 1945 in the camp; grandson found the recording through US Holocaust Memorial Museum, UK Jewish News reports
Screenshot from 'Je ne rêve que de vous,' or 'An Irrepressible Woman.' (Courtesy)
April 18, 2020, 12:50 pm
The Jewish woman who entered a Nazi camp to marry the French prime minister
‘An Irrepressible Woman’ tells the true WWII story of Jeanne Reichenbach, who went voluntarily to Buchenwald, where she married three-time French premier Léon Blum
By Rich Tenorio
A Nazi photo album bound with human skin identified by researchers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. (Courtesy/Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum)
March 8, 2020, 12:57 am
Researchers find Nazi photo album bound with human skin
Auschwitz memorial and museum says book likely came from Buchenwald concentration camp, created by husband and wife known for taking inmates’ body parts
By ToI Staff
In this photograph taken in April 1945, survivors of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp sit on a latrine, after the liberation of the camp by Allied troops. (Eric Schwab/AFP)
January 14, 2020, 1:42 pm
How the world discovered the Nazi death camps
When the Allies liberated the first camps, the ghastly images of what they found were not widely shared. The discovery of Ohrdruf marked a turning point
By AFP
A view of the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, January 26, 2018. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images/via JTA)
November 6, 2019, 1:20 am
German teens probed for anti-Semitic songs after visit to Nazi camp
Three 14-year-olds from Grunberg, in western Germany, under police investigation for incitement to hatred after singing along on ride home from Buchenwald
By Marcy Oster
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