Archive photo of the day
Buchenwald, 2003
Stars and Stripes
January 29, 2025
Buchenwald, Germany, Dec. 10, 2003: Memory stones top slabs of rock with the names of concentration camps inscribed on them as part of the memorial to the Sinti and Roma at the Buchenwald concentration camp. More than 250,000 people were held captive at Buchenwald between 1937 and 1945 and more than 50,000 prisoners died during this period. In the background is the crematorium at center and the camp gate at right.
Read Stars and Stripes’ 2021 article on Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp here.