Buchenwald station memorial
Platform of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. In the spring of 1943, the SS forced concentration camp inmates to build the ten-kilometre stretch of track between Weimar-Schöndorf and Buchenwald within a mere three months. Buchenwald Station was also the point of departure for extermination transports taking children and sick inmates to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. When the SS evacuated the camps in the East in January and February 1945, mass transports were sent to Buchenwald. Many of the inmates were already dead upon arrival or died shortly thereafter. Photo taken Monday 30 June 2014. Photo: Steffen Mokosch (Steffen.Mokosch@web.de)