JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. KONZENTRATIONSLAGER BUCHENWALD. WEIMAR - GERMANY
Shalom! World. Never forget! Konzentrationslager Buchenwald was built in 1937 in the direct victinity of Weimar, the city of German Classicism. It was to this concentration camp on Ettersberg Mountain that the SS deported men, teenagers and children - political opponents to the Nazi regime, so-called associals and criminals, homosexuals, Jews - who had no place in the National Socialist "people's community". Following the outbreak of World War II, the National Socialist sent people from nearly every country in Europe to Buchenwald. At the time of the camp's liberation, ninenty-five percent of its inmates were from countries outside the German Reich. Between 1937 and 1945, altogether more than 250.000 persons from more than fifty different nations were imprisioned here. The camp gate with the inscription Jedem das Seine ( to each his own) formed the boundary between the SSarea and the inmates' camp. The inmates in the Buchenwald "par...