Few Buchenwald survivors are still alive to share their firsthand stories of the camp, and many were just children when it was liberated, so details can be difficult to recall 80 years later.

About 56,000 people were killed in Buchenwald -- some executed, others starved or worked to death -- and a further 20,000 died in Mittelbau-Dora, where inmates worked on the Nazis' V1 and V2 rockets.

More than 56,000 of the 280,000 inmates held at Buchenwald and its satellite camps were killed by the Nazis or died as a result of hunger, illness or medical experiments before the camp’s ...

The governor of the state of Thuringia, Mario Voigt, and former German President Christian Wulff spoke at a ceremony in the city of Weimar, near Buchenwald, attended by scores of people, including ...

The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1937. More than 55,000 of the almost 300,000 inmates held at the camp and its satellites were killed by Nazis or died as a result of hunger or ...

By 1945, some 340,000 people had been sent to the camp. In all, roughly 56,000 people were murdered at Buchenwald and another 20,000 at Mittelbau-Dora.

More than 250,000 people were held captive at Buchenwald between 1937 and 1945 and more than 50,000 prisoners died during this period.