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Buchenwald

People attend the commemoration to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp at the camp's memorial site in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany, on April 6, 2025. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP / File)
April 14, 2026, 3:58 am
How an oath by Buchenwald survivors is being used to fuel anti-Israel protests
As the pro-Palestinian group ‘Kufiyas in Buchenwald’ is blocked from demonstrating outside the notorious Nazi concentration camp ahead of Yom Hashoah, a debate about the site’s history resurfaces
By Shira Li Bartov
Visitors queue at the main gate of the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial site, on April 3, 2025. (Jens Schlueter/ AFP)
April 11, 2026, 1:30 pm
German court upholds ban on protest against Israel’s ‘genocide’ at Buchenwald memorial
Sunday vigil by anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist group ‘Kufiyas in Buchenwald’ will instead be held in the nearby city of Weimar
By AFP and ToI Staff
Visitors queue at the main gate of the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial site, on April 3, 2025. (Jens Schlueter/ AFP)
April 3, 2026, 4:48 am
Germany bans planned rally against Israel’s ‘genocide’ at Buchenwald former Nazi camp
Organizers appeal move in court; Jewish leader has slammed ‘perfidious attempt to relativize the murder of over 11,000 Jews… by comparing it to Israel’s actions in recent Gaza war’
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters take part in a banned demonstration at Berlin's Alexanderplatz on October 7, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
February 24, 2026, 12:55 pm
Anti-Zionist group’s planned protest of keffiyeh ban at Buchenwald memorial sparks outrage
A German court has ruled that the former concentration camp may refuse entry to visitors wearing the traditional Palestinian headscarf, which has been adopted by pro-Palestinian protesters
By Grace Gilson
Visitors queue at the main gate of the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial site, on April 3, 2025. (Jens Schlueter/ AFP)
August 20, 2025, 11:55 pm
German court rules Nazi camp memorial can bar visitors wearing keffiyeh
Woman wearing scarf was refused entry to 80th anniversary event at former camp, petitioned court
By AFP
Holocaust survivor Alojzy Maciak from Poland attends the commemoration ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp at the camp's memorial site in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany, on April 6, 2025. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)
April 7, 2025, 3:27 am
At Buchenwald, former German president warns of ‘radicalization,’ far-right threat
Christian Wulff, speaking at ceremony marking 80 years since concentration camp’s liberation, says far-right German party’s ideology creates ‘breeding ground’ for fear
By AP
Rose Girone in January 2025 (Screen grab/Fox5)
February 25, 2025, 9:43 am
Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113
Born in Poland, her family moved to Hamburg; in 1939 she fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, where she credits knitting as helping save her family before they moved to the US
By Lisa Keys
A young man checks the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jewish Polish prisoners coming from Auschwitz, in Dachau concentration camp in late April or early May 1945, after the Dachau's camp was liberated by the US army on April 29, 1945. (ERIC SCHWAB / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 6:39 am
Searching for his mother, photojournalist Eric Schwab exposed horrors of Nazi camps
The Jewish former fashion photographer became a war correspondent after Paris was liberated, documenting the depravity of the Holocaust while on his deeply personal quest
By AFP
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
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