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Research

We offer a variety of means for pursuing your research interests, both online and on site.

Three hands of different people touch the heated central plate of the memorial sign on the roll call square. On the plate are read nationalities

Online Books of the Dead Concentration camp and Soviet Special Camp No. 2

The Books of the Dead of the concentration camp and the Soviet Special Camp No. 2 are accessible online for research on persons who died in Buchenwald.
Simon Toncman standing in front on the right, undressed. He holds a jacket in front of the lower half of his body. To the left, other prisoners are lying in shelf-like scaffolding. All are looking into the camera. The men are, as far as can be seen, completely emaciated. Some are wrapped in thin blankets and use metal bowls as headrests.

Online Photo Archive Buchenwald

The foundation collection presently has more than 10,000 historical photographs among its holdings.
A long row of shelves in the deep magazine

Archive Research on individual persons

The Buchenwald Memorial has among its holdings a collection of archival materials on the concentration camp as well as the Special Camp No. 2 and its specific history. Documents donated to the memorial by former inmates or their relatives form the core...
Wide shelves of the magazine. On the front shelf are clothes.

Collections Objects, finds, photos, and artworks

The Buchenwald Memorial holds several collections which it has been amassing since the 1970s. They today encompass more than 38,000 inventoried objects, photos, and artworks.
A user pulls a book from one of the book shelves in the memorial library.

Library Online catalogue and new acquisitions

In existence since 1965, our specialist research library presently encompasses more than 45,000 media units. Publications on the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Soviet Special Camp No. 2, and the memorial form the core of these holdings.
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