Weimar (dpa/th) - Stones are intended to commemorate Jewish youths who were deported by the National Socialists from Buchenwald concentration camp to the Auschwitz death camp. The 111 memorial stones are to be dedicated to them on Sunday (2:00 p.m.) near the railway line over which the transports of people who were abducted from all over Europe ran. A commemorative march starts at 10 a.m. at the main station in Weimar, which Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) also wants to join. He will be accompanied by musicians from the Yiddish Summer.
The organizers are the initiative "Beech Forest Railway Memorial Trail" and the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial in cooperation with the Yiddish Summer Weimar. The action has a special significance after seven memorial trees for concentration camp victims were cut down in July. The act had not only caused great outrage among prisoner organizations that suspected a political background. Despite ongoing investigations, it is still unclear who is responsible for the crime.
By the end of the Second World War, the Nazis had deported 280,000 people to the Buchenwald concentration camp. About 56,000 of them were murdered or died from starvation, disease and medical experiments. On April 11, 1945, US troops liberated the camp.
