Buchenwald Memorial

Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near , Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich territories.
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  • Type: Monument
  • Description: Nazi concentration camp in Thuringia (1937–1945)
  • Also known as: “Buchenwald”, “Buchenwald concentration camp”, “Gedenkstätte Buchenwald”, and “KZ Buchenwald”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Crematorium and Brunfthof.

Memorial
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is a memorial, which is situated 200 metres southeast of Buchenwald Memorial.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site, which is situated 1½ km east of Buchenwald Memorial.

Tower
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is situated 1½ km southeast of Buchenwald Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alte Burg and Hottelstedt.

Locality
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is a locality.

Village
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is a former municipality in the district of , . Since 1 December 2007, it has been part of the municipality , which merged into the town on 1 January 2019.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of , .

Buchenwald Memorial

Latitude
51.0228° or 51° 1′ 22″ north
Longitude
11.24865° or 11° 14′ 55″ east
Open location code
9F3H26FX+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 34204630
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Wiki­data ID
Q152802
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Buchenwald Memorial” 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: “Gedenkplaats Buchenwald”
  • Dutch: “Kamp Buchenwald”
  • Esperanto: “Buchenwald”
  • Estonian: “Buchenwaldi koonduslaager”
  • Finnish: “Buchenwald”
  • Finnish: “Buchenwaldin keskitysleiri”
  • French: “Buchenwald”
  • French: “Mémorial de 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”
  • 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”
  • Italian: “Memoriale 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: “Būhenvaldes koncentrācijas nometne”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Мемориальный комплекс 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”
  • Spanish: “Memorial 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”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Block 45 and Block 50.

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