Online Exhibitions - Buchenwald Memorial

Online-Exhibitions

A hand-carved signpost to the Buchenwald SS barracks and Buchenwald concentration camp on Carachoweg. Above the lettering you can see figures carved out of wood. Left: SS soldiers, right: an SS man driving three people in front of him. The figures are depicted as a monk, priest, and man with suit and hat.

In Black and White Photographs from Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937-1945

The photo exhibition Black on White is the first virtual presentation of the pictorial history of a concentration camp. At the same time, it aims to make visible the context in which the photos were taken and the photographers who took them.

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A boy in prisoner's clothing stands in front of rubble and smiles at the camera.

Youth in concentration camp Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora

Several hundred children and well over 10,000 young people under the age of 21 were deported to the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps until 1945; thousands died. The online exhibition "Youth in the concentration camp" is...

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A wooden door made of rough beams. A window in it is barred with wide iron bars.

Gulag. Traces and testimonies 1929-1956 Biographies and objects

The exhibition's website presents selected biographies and objects from the Soviet camp system that the human rights organization Memorial has collected from across the former Soviet Union since the 1980s.

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Digital presentations

Geschichte statt Mythen Aktueller Geschichtsrevisionismus in Thüringen

Auf unserem Blog finden Sie Analysen zu tagesaktuellen TV-Auftritten, Wahlkampfreden oder Social-Media-Posts von politischen Akteur:innen. Wir klären über die Hintergründe der genutzten Chiffren, Mythen oder historischen Analogien auf und ordnen diese...

Title page of the brochure. The title is written on a black band above a photo. The photo shows crowds of people standing in rows. All of them are carrying swastika flags.

Weimar under National Socialism A city map

Weimar and the Classical period were of particular interest to National Socialism. The entire city and its cultural life were to be transformed to conform to the Nazi ideal of a "German culture" for the Volksgemeinschaft.

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Black and white photo of an old building with "KAUFHAUS" sign and cobbled street in the foreground.

Novemberpogrome 1938 in Thüringen Ereignisse - Biographien - Spuren - Gedenken

Ein Projekt von Studierenden am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte in Medien und Öffentlichkeit an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Kooperation mit Initiativen und Einzelpersonen in Thüringen sowie der Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora

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Blog #otd1945 The Final Months of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camps

Starting in January, the blog #otd1945 (“on this day 1945”) will take a day-by-day look at what was going on in the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps 76 years ago.

Contemporary witness ten zero ninety Rolf Kralovitz 1925–2015

The multimedia project TSURIKRUFN! tells the story of the actor and television producer (including "Die Sendung mit der Maus") Rolf Kralovitz.

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The photo shows an article from the Thüringer Allgemeine with the title "Reasonable truths. Buchenwald internment camp 1945-50 justice or revenge?".

Reasonable truths The reappraisal of the history of the Soviet Special Camp No. 2 Buchenwald 1989/90 to 2020

Until 1989, the history of Soviet special camps in the GDR was kept quiet. At the same time, limited private knowledge existed, but was not allowed to be made public.

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Rosa Winkel. Digitale Informationen zur Wanderaustellung

Als homosexuell verfolgte Häftlinge in den Konzentrationslagern Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora

Football and the Buchenwald concentration camp Verfolgte Fußballer und Funktionäre und die Bedeutung des Fußballs im Lager und für die SS

In the summer of 2024, the European Men's Football Championship, the UEFA EURO 2024, will take place in Germany. The Buchenwald Memorial is taking this as an opportunity to highlight the links between football and the history of the Buchenwald...