Buchenwald
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Transcript of Buchenwald
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BuchenwaldAbi Dawson
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Nazi Camps
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Doors of Buchenwald
250,000 Passed Through
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Gates of Buchenwald Gates bear
inscription “To Each his Due!”
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New Arrivals
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Satellite Camps Over 130 Satellite
and Extension Camps.
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Buchenwald 1945
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Forced Labor Camp Designed to Kill
Prisoners by Forced Labor
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Identification Each of the
Buchenwald prisoners had a number. It was not uncommon for numbers to be mixed up and one punished for another’s offense.
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Roll Call In 1943, dogs
trained to kill men in these striped suits were brought into the camp and released outside its borders.
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Roll Call Four roll calls took
place each day. If a prisoner was
missing, the rest would stand until he was found.
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Arrivals from Kristallnacht
Roll Call for prisoners arrested during “Night of Broken Glass”
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Crematoria The minimum death
quota was 80 per day.
This was often exceeded.
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Barracks First barracks were
built by prisoners themselves.
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Elie Wiesel at Buchenwald Elie is in the second
row of bunks, seventh from the left.
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Administration Karl Otto Koch, the
Commandant He was easily bribed,
and had a watch fob made from prisoners’ gold teeth bearing the birth dates of his children.
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Ilse Koch Ilse Koch
committed many war crimes. One of her interests was using tattooed skin to make lamp shades and book covers.
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Ilse Koch She was known for
riding her horse through the camps and whipping prisoners.
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Children at Buchenwald The children
sometimes hid among the prisoners’ belongings.
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Children at Buchenwald If they were caught,
the punishment was to be laid among those already in the ditches.
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Evacuation Graves of Prisoners
who died during Death Marches
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Liberation These starving
children were liberated by American soldiers on April 11, 1945
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Liberation Not many survived
to be liberated.
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We Remember A memorial to
those who died at Buchenwald.