(JEWISH GROUP) Ceremony commemorates 80th anniversary of Buchenwald camp liberation

[Behind the Aegis]

Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday as one of the country’s former presidents warned against “radicalisation and a worldwide shift to the right.”

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 several Holocaust survivors from across Europe.

Voigt – whose state includes Buchenwald – called it a “place of systematic dehumanisation” and said that everything that happened at the death camp was “designed to break the human spirit and dignity.”

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 medical experiments before the camp’s liberation on 11 April, 1945.

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[KewlKat]

1. I found a handmade menorah with Buchenwald

Scratched on it. It sits on my mantle. When I get depressed about the happenings around me, I look at it and tell myself nothing I’ve endured in my life can compare to the suffering our people endured in that camp.