Buchenwald

E11545

Nazi concentration camp forced labor camp

Buchenwald was one of Nazi Germany’s largest and most notorious concentration camps, where tens of thousands of prisoners were subjected to forced labor, brutal conditions, and mass murder during the Holocaust.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
Buchenwald concentration camp	49
Buchenwald canonical	6
Buchenwald Memorial	5
Buchenwald camp area	1
Buchenwald concentration camp (complex area)	1
Buchenwald concentration camp complex	1
Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site	1
Buchenwald memorial site	1
Konzentrationslager Buchenwald	1
NKVD Special Camp No. 2 Buchenwald	1
Ohrdruf	1

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi concentration camp ⓘ forced labor camp ⓘ
category	Holocaust locations in Germany ⓘ Nazi concentration camps in Germany ⓘ World War II crimes of Nazi Germany ⓘ
closed	1945 ⓘ
commemorates	victims of Nazism ⓘ
controlledBy	Nazi Germany ⓘ
country	Germany ⓘ
establishedBy	SS ⓘ
estimatedDeaths	over 56000 ⓘ
estimatedPrisoners	over 250000 ⓘ
hasFacility	SS barracks ⓘ armaments factories ⓘ crematorium ⓘ quarry ⓘ zoo for SS personnel ⓘ
hasSubcamp	Berga an der Elster subcamp ⓘ Gustloff-Werk II subcamp ⓘ Laura subcamp ⓘ Leipzig-Thekla subcamp ⓘ surface form: Leipzig-Schönefeld subcamp Leipzig-Thekla subcamp ⓘ Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp ⓘ surface form: Mittelbau-Dora Ohrdruf subcamp ⓘ Gustloff-Werk II subcamp ⓘ surface form: Weimar-Gustloff-Werk subcamp
liberatedBy	Third United States Army ⓘ surface form: 3rd US Army 6th Armored Division ⓘ United States Army ⓘ
liberationDate	1945-04-11 ⓘ
locatedIn	Thuringia ⓘ central Germany ⓘ
location	Ettersberg hill near Weimar ⓘ
memorialEstablished	1958 ⓘ
nameMeaning	beech forest ⓘ
notableEvent	death marches in early 1945 ⓘ prisoner resistance organization ⓘ self-liberation efforts by prisoners in April 1945 ⓘ
notablePrisoner	Bruno Bettelheim ⓘ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ⓘ Elie Wiesel ⓘ Ernst Thälmann ⓘ Imre Kertész ⓘ Jorge Semprún ⓘ Léon Blum ⓘ Marcel Dassault ⓘ Primo Levi ⓘ Jorge Semprún ⓘ surface form: Robert Antelme
notablePrisonerGroup	French prisoners ⓘ German criminals ⓘ JehovahsWitnesses ⓘ surface form: Jehovah’s Witnesses Jews ⓘ Polish prisoners ⓘ Sinti ⓘ surface form: Sinti and Roma Soviet prisoners of war ⓘ Spanish Republicans ⓘ homosexual prisoners ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ
opened	1937 ⓘ
openingDate	1937-07-15 ⓘ
operatedBy	Waffen-SS ⓘ surface form: SS-Totenkopfverbände Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ surface form: Schutzstaffel
originalName	Konzentrationslager Ettersberg ⓘ
partOf	Nazi camp system ⓘ surface form: Nazi concentration camp system
postwarUse	Soviet special camp ⓘ memorial site ⓘ
renamed	Buchenwald self-link ⓘ
subjectOf	Buchenwald Trial ⓘ Nuremberg trials ⓘ surface form: Nuremberg follow-up trials
usedFor	extermination through labor ⓘ forced labor ⓘ mass murder ⓘ medical experiments ⓘ political repression ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Holocaust → notableCamp → Buchenwald ⓘ

Nazi Germany → notableCamp → Buchenwald ⓘ

Kristallnacht → concentrationCampDestination → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Elie Wiesel → imprisonedIn → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald → renamed → Buchenwald self-link ⓘ

Auschwitz death marches → destination → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Night → mainSubject → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Night → settingLocation → Buchenwald ⓘ

Nazi camp system → notableCamp → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Konzentrationslager Ettersberg → laterKnownAs → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Konzentrationslager Ettersberg → renamedAs → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald

Konzentrationslager Ettersberg → successor → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site

Imre Kertész → imprisonedIn → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Jorge Semprún → imprisonedIn → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp → subcampOf → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Ettersberg hill near Weimar → hasStructure → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald Memorial

Laura subcamp → partOf → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Spanish Republicans → imprisonedIn → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald Trial → concernedPlace → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Bruno Bettelheim → imprisonedIn → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Léon Blum → wasDeportedTo → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Ohrdruf subcamp → near → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ohrdruf

6th Armored Division → liberated → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp (complex area)

Gustloff-Werk II subcamp → partOf → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp complex

Berga an der Elster subcamp → partOf → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Leipzig-Thekla subcamp → partOf → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Weimar → hasLandmark → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald Memorial

Georges Valois → placeOfDeath → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Georges Valois → detainedIn → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

SS guards → operatedAt → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Ernst Thälmann → placeOfDeath → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Ernst Thälmann → placeOfDetention → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Paul Reynaud → detainedIn → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Soviet NKVD special camp → notableExample → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: NKVD Special Camp No. 2 Buchenwald

Night–Dawn–Day trilogy → setting → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Elie Wiesel Holocaust trilogy → about → Buchenwald ⓘ

All Rivers Run to the Sea → subject → Buchenwald ⓘ

All Rivers Run to the Sea → setting → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

SS-Totenkopfverbände → operated → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Aktion 14f13 → location → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Ilse Koch → workLocation → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Karl Krafft → placeOfDeath → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Nazi deportation of Roma → destination → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Mafalda of Savoy → placeOfDeath → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Mafalda of Savoy → placeOfDetention → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Westerbork transit camp → deportationDestination → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald subcamp system → partOf → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Fatelessness → setting → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Le grand voyage → setting → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

L’écriture ou la vie → setting → Buchenwald ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp