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21.07.2022

Attack on Buchenwald Memorial

Unknown persons have vandalized seven trees, by sawing them off or breaking them down, close by Buchenwald Memorial. The planting of the commemorative trees began in 1999 along the Death March routes from Buchenwald concentration camp. They are in honour and recognition of the courage of German anti-fascists Emil Carlebach, Otto Kipp, Erich Loch, Reinhold Lochmann, August Stötzel. They are also in honour of the 1,600 children and young people who did not survive Buchenwald, and the French engineer and industrialist, Marcel Dassault. The destroyed trees symbolize life, their lives and their sacrifices. Image: Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

During a visit to France, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, made a statement on the targeted attack on the Buchenwald concentration camp Memorial. The attack included the vandalizing of trees dedicated to children murdered in the camp:

"Survivors of the German concentration and extermination camps feel that this calculated and hate-filled demonstration of power by neo-Nazis is a direct attack on all the people murdered in the camps, and an attack on remembrance culture in general. Such attacks are also the result of the turn-around in the politics of remembrance, something that is being repeatedly demanded by the right-wing extremist AfD. These kinds of news items are particularly shameful when they come from Germany."

For further Information

Christoph Heubner 
Executive Vice President
International Auschwitz Committee
Phone ++ 49 (0)30 26 39 26 81