Notable inmates

Klara Segałowicz (25 August 1897 – 1943) was a Polish actress.

Niklaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II.

Klaus Hubert Hermann Dylewski (born 11 May 1916 – 1 April 2012) was a German Volksdeutscher with Polish citizenship and SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) who perpetrated acts of genocide at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.

Between 20 August and 19 October 1944, 168 Allied airmen were held prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp.

Klemens Biniakowski (15 November 1902 – 6 March 1985) was a Polish sprinter.

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов ), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Ворошилов; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era (1924–1953).