Prof. Dr. Volkhard Knigge
Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
Prof. Monika Grütters
Member of the Bundestag and Minister of State, commissioner of the federal government for culture and media
Prof. Dr. Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff
Head of the States Chancellery and Minister of Culture and Federal and European Affairs, Chairman of the Foundation Council
Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Chairman of the Scientific Board of Trustees
Bertrand Herz
President of the International Commitee of Buchenwald-Dora and Subcamps
Éva Fahidi-Pusztai
Representative on the Former Buchenwald Concentration Camp Inmates‘ Advisory Board
Naftali Fürst
Representative on the Former Buchenwald Concentration Camp Inmates‘ Advisory Board
Ottomar Rothmann
Representative on the Former Buchenwald Concentration Camp Inmates‘ Advisory Board
Ivan Ivanji
Writer, diplomat and survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps
Former muster ground
Survivors and their relatives during the wreath ceremony at the memorial for all victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Symbolic opening
Bertrand Herz (middle), Naftali Fürst, member of the German Bundestag and Minister of State Prof. Monika Grütters, Prof. Dr. Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, Head of the States Cancellery and Minister of Culture and Federal and European Affairs, with Prof. Dr. Volkhard Knigge open the new permanent exhibition in the former depot
Minister of State Prof. Monika Grütters in the exhibition
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Knigge, director of the Buchenwald- and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, explains the prologue to the new permanent exhibition to Member of the Bundestag and Minister of State Prof. Monika Grütters, commissioner of the federal government for culture and media, in accompaniment of Bertrand Herz, honorary president of the International Committee of Buchenwald-Dora and Subcamps, and other former inmates
Chapter 1
Visitors learn about trade between Weimar companies and the SS
Listening stations
Visitors at one of the six listening stations with life story portraits of inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Interactive module of information
Animated map of the development and liquidation of the sub-camp system of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Chapter 4
Exhibition vitrine on the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Liberation
Bertrand Herz in front of the French liberation brigade flag in the exhibition
Camp model
Camp model in front of the new window on the 2nd floor overlooking the camp grounds
"Buchenwald. Ostracism and Violence 1937 to 1945"
On Sunday, 17 April 2016, in occasion of the 71st Anniversary of Liberation, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation opened the new permanent historical exhibition "Buchenwald. Ostracism and Violence 1937 to 1945".
Speeches in the cinema
Welcoming Address
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Kigge
Director oft he Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
Speakers
Prof. Monika Grütters
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Prof. Dr. Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff
Head of the States Chancellery and Minister of Culture and Federal and European Affairs, Chairman of the Foundation Council
Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Chairman of the Scientific Board of Trustees
Bertrand Herz, France
President of the International Commitee of Buchenwald-Dora and Subcamps
Éva Fahidi-Pusztai, Hungary
Representative on the Former Buchenwald Concentration Camp Inmates‘ Advisory Board
Naftali Fürst, Israel
Representative on the Former Buchenwald Concentration Camp Inmates‘ Advisory Board
Ottomar Rothmann
Representative on the Former Buchenwald Concentration Camp Inmates‘ Advisory Board
Ivan Ivanji, Serbien
Writer, diplomat and survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps
