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Library

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.

Among the library’s resources is a large collection of rare early autobiographical testimonies by survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp and its subcamps. Equally worthy of note are the more than 600 unpublished specialist papers and university theses.

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Reference library

The Buchenwald Memorial library is a reference library and open to the public. Well-equipped user rooms offer an ideal work setting.

To notify the library in advance of your visit, please get in touch with our contact person.

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Online catalogues

Before your visit, you can find information about our holdings in the library catalogue.

The Buchenwald Memorial library is a member of the Association of Memorial Site Libraries (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Gedenkstättenbibliotheken; AGGB). Currently 26 institutions are represented in the AGGB’s union catalogue.

To the library catalogue To the AGGB catalogue
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New acquisitions

Selected new acquisitions are listed here:

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