Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany

Buchenwald was one of the biggest Nazi concentration camps in Germany that was located near the city of Weimar in the federal state of Thuringia. Approximately 250,000 people were imprisoned in the camp from July 1937 to April 1945, an estimated 56,000 of whom died there. Buchenwald was a male camp for 20,000 people. It comprised 52 barracks, including camp facilities and 43 living quarters. The Buchenwald subcamp system became a source of free workforce for Nazi military activities.

Photos by Denis Kostyuchenko

Entrance gate at Buchenwald. Clock tells the time of the liberation of the camp

A one-man cell where prisoners were tortured and killed

Camp fence

The inscription "Jedem das Seine" [“To Each His Own”] on the entrance gate

Ovens in Buchenwald crematorium

Buchenwald crematorium

Horse stable where 8,483 Soviet prisoners of war were executed. They were placed in front of a measuring device on the wall and then executed by shooting in the back of the neck through a special hole in the wall

Block No.5

Main gate. The "Bunker” dreaded cells were located in the left wing of the gate building

Prisoners' mass grave

Tablets with names of those executed in the basement of the crematorium