The Enterance Gate to the Camp
Buchenwald the concentration camp was located in a town called Weimar in Germany. The camp was built in 1937. The camp was made to house Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and ex-convicts. However, Jews were added to that list after, “The Night of Broken Glass” known as “Kristallnacht” on November 9, 1938. There were a total of 250,000 prisoners at Buchenwald from its opening in July 1937 to its liberation in April of 1945. Out of those 250,000 prisoners 56,000 of them were killed. On April 11, 1945 Buchenwald was luckily liberated by the U.S. forces. The camp was then used to hold political prisoners from 1945 to 1950.