KL Buchenwald wooden rememberance panel, made by or...
KL Buchenwald wooden rememberance panel, made by or for a former inmate who was in that camp. Panel has been carved wirh the symbol of the triangle of political prisoners from Belgium, the memorial monument to the victims of that camp and also the main gate of the camp of Buchenwald. All hand made post-war. Awesome item directly connected with Nazi concentration camps.Buchenwald was a 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 Germany’s 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees.Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically disabled, political prisoners, Romani people, Freemasons, and prisoners of war. There were also ordinary criminals and sexual "deviants". All prisoners worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. The insufficient food and poor conditions, as well as deliberate executions, led to 56,545 deaths at Buchenwald of the 280,000 prisoners who passed through the camp and its 139 subcamps.[1] The camp gained notoriety when it was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945; Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower visited one of its subcamps.
