Germany · Weimar
Buchenwald concentration camp
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Between July 1937 and April 1945, the SS imprisoned some 250,000 persons from all countries of Europe in Buchenwald. Exact mortality figures for the Buchenwald site can only be estimated, as camp authorities never registered a significant number of the prisoners. The SS murdered at least 56,000 male prisoners in the Buchenwald camp system. Some 11,000 of them were Jews.
Background
Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ËbuËxnÌ©valt]; 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich (Old Reich) territories. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. The Nazi camp prisoners came from all over Europe and the Soviet Union, and included Jews, Poles and other Slavs, Roma, the mentally ill and physically disabled, political prisoners, Freemasons, and prisoners of war. There were also ordinary criminals and those perceived as sexual deviants by the Nazi regime.
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1937
Closed 1945
Facility profile
Operator
Schutzstaffel
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1937
Region
Weimar
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
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Visiting
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Mailing
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Practical info
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Known issues
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Notable inmates
- Marian Ciepielowski1907–1973 · physician
Marian Ciepielowski (30 August 1907 â 1 February 1973) was a Polish physician and scientist.
- Bohumil Zeman1909
- Dominik ÄervÃk1909
Mongo Stojka1929–2014 · musician- Oskar Baur1902
- Otto Körting1884–1959 · politician
Otto Körting (20 May 1884 â 3 July 1959) was a German politician. After 1933 Germany became a one-party state.
- Paul Avraham Alsberg1919–2006 · archivist
- Peter Schlack1875–1957 · politician
- Robert Dubovsky1907–1991 · politician
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Data completeness
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- USHMM article
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q152802)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.