Memorial at Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, 1945
Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
Description:
Photograph. Temporary memorial at Buchenwald concentration camp for prisoners who died there; "K.L.B" [Konzentrations lager Buchenwald] is in the center of the obelisk. Personal caption on reverse: "3. Inside the gateway described in #2 to one side they had this temporary memorial built after its liberation. The 51,000 are the total number that died or lost their lives here, the approximately 5 yrs that Buchenwald was in operation." Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945
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1945
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Items from the service of Ronello Brown, who fought with the 197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion in Normandy, Northern France, and central Europe. Mr. Brown received the Good Conduct Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.
Geography:
Buchenwald
Latitude:
51.017
Longitude:
11.250
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Concentration camps--Germany
Monuments & memorials--Germany