Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich territories.
- Historical site
- …lies at an elevation of 432 metres (1,417 feet)
- Description: Nazi concentration camp in Thuringia (1937–1945)
- Also known as“Buchenwald”“KZ Buchenwald”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crematorium and Brunfthof.
Crematorium
Memorial
Crematorium is a memorial, which is situated 130 metres east of Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Brunfthof
Archaeological site
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alte Burg and Hottelstedt.
Hottelstedt
Village
Ettersburg
Village
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
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Latitude
51.02212° or 51° 1′ 20″ north
Longitude
11.24926° or 11° 14′ 57″ east
Open location code
9F3H26CX+RP
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Buchenwald Concentration Camp” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Buchenwald-konsentrasiekamp”
- Afrikaans: “Buchenwald”
- Albanian: “Kampi i përqëndrimit Bukenvaldit”
- Arabic: “معسكر اعتقال بوخنفالد”
- Armenian: “Բուխենվալդ համակենտրոնացման ճամբար”
- Armenian: “Բուխենվալդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Buhenvald həbs düşərgəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Buxenvald həbs düşərgəsi”
- Basque: “Buchenwald”
- Belarusian: “Бухенвальд”
- Belarusian: “Бухэнвальд”
- Breton: “Buchenwald”
- Bulgarian: “Бухенвалд”
- Catalan: “Buchenwald”
- Chinese: “布痕瓦尔德”
- Chinese: “布痕瓦尔德集中营”
- Chinese: “布痕瓦爾德集中營”
- Czech: “Buchenwald”
- Czech: “Koncentrační tábor Buchenwald”
- Czech: “KT Buchenwald”
- Danish: “Buchenwald koncentrationslejr”
- Danish: “Buchenwald”
- Dutch: “Buchenwald”
- Dutch: “Büchenwald”
- Dutch: “Concentratiekamp Buchenwald”
- Dutch: “Kamp Buchenwald”
- Esperanto: “Buchenwald”
- Estonian: “Buchenwaldi koonduslaager”
- Finnish: “Buchenwald”
- Finnish: “Buchenwaldin keskitysleiri”
- French: “Buchenwald”
- Galician: “Buchenwald”
- Galician: “campo de concentración de Buchenwald”
- Georgian: “ბუხენვალდის საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკი”
- German: “002”
- German: “Buchenwald”
- German: “K.-L. Buchenwald”
- German: “KL Buchenwald”
- German: “KLBu”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Buchenwald”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Weimar-Buchenwald”
- German: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Greek: “Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Μπούχενβαλντ”
- Hebrew: “בוכנוואלד”
- Hebrew: “בוכנוולד”
- Hindi: “बूख़नवाल्ड यातना शिविर”
- Hindi: “बूख़नवाल्ड”
- Hungarian: “buchenwaldi koncentrációs tábor”
- Hungarian: “Buchenwaldi koncentrációs tábor”
- Indonesian: “Buchenwald concentration camp”
- Indonesian: “Kamp konsentrasi Buchenwald”
- Italian: “Buchenwald”
- Italian: “campo di concentramento di Buchenwald”
- Italian: “Campo di concentramento di Buchenwald”
- Japanese: “ブーヘンヴァルト”
- Japanese: “ブーヘンヴァルト強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ブッヘンヴァルト強制収容所”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Бухенвальд”
- Kirghiz: “Бухенвальд”
- Korean: “부헨발트 강제 수용소”
- Latvian: “Buchenvaldes nometne”
- Latvian: “Būhenvaldes koncentrācijas nometne”
- Latvian: “Buhenvaldes nometne”
- Latvian: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Luxembourgish: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Macedonian: “Концентрационен логор Бухенвалд”
- Malayalam: “ബുഷൻവാൾട് തടങ്കൽപ്പാളയം”
- Mingrelian: “ბუხენვალდიშ საკონცეტრაციე კარე”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buchenwald”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Konsentrasjonsleiren Buchenwald”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buchenwald”
- Norwegian: “Buchenwald”
- Persian: “اردوگاه بوخن والد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه بوخنوالد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه کار اجباری بوخن والد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه کار اجباری بوخنوالد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه مرگ بوخن والد”
- Persian: “اردوگاه مرگ بوخنوالد”
- Polish: “Buchenwald”
- Polish: “KL Buchenwald”
- Portuguese: “Buchenwald”
- Portuguese: “Campo de concentração de Buchenwald”
- Romanian: “Buchenwald”
- Romanian: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Romanian: “Lagărul de concentrare Buchenwald”
- Russian: “Бухенвальд”
- Serbian: “Koncentracioni logor Buhenvald”
- Serbian: “Konzentrationslager Buchenwald”
- Serbian: “Бухенвалд”
- Serbian: “Концентрациони логор Бухенвалд”
- Slovak: “Buchenwald”
- Slovak: “Koncentračný tábor Buchenwald”
- Slovenian: “Buchenwald”
- Slovenian: “Koncentracijsko taborišče Buchenwald”
- Spanish: “Buchenwald”
- Spanish: “Campo de concentracion de Buchenwald”
- Spanish: “Campo de concentración de Buchenwald”
- Swedish: “Buchenwald”
- Tatar: “Buxenwald”
- Thai: “Buchenwald”
- Thai: “ค่ายกักกันบูเคินวัลท์”
- Turkish: “Buchenwald toplama kampı”
- Turkish: “Buchenwald Toplama Kampı”
- Turkish: “Toplama Kampı Buchenwald”
- Ukrainian: “Бухенвальд”
- Ukrainian: “Концтабір Бухенвальд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Buchenwald”
- Upper Sorbian: “Koncentraciske lěhwo Buchenwald”
- Upper Sorbian: “KZ Buchenwald”
- Uzbek: “Buxenvald”
- Vietnamese: “Trại tập trung Buchenwald”
- Western Frisian: “Buchenwald”
- Western Panjabi: “بوخنولڈ عقوبتی کیمپ”
- Yiddish: “בוכנוואלד”
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