James Hoyt delivered mail in rural Iowa for more than 30 years. Yet Hoyt had long kept a secret from most of those who knew him best: He was one of the four U.S. soldiers to first see Germany's ...

Declarations that any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza amounts to “antisemitism" and represents an abuse of Holocaust remembrance are assuming increasingly bizarre forms.

In the early spring of 1944 a political prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp penned a letter to his wife, Käthe, in Hamburg. “It looks like we have to count on a long separation, but ...

The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1937. More than 56,000 of the 280,000 inmates held at Buchenwald and its satellite camps were killed by the Nazis or died as a result of hunger ...

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It was April 11, 1945, when 19-year-old American soldier Abner Ganet stepped inside the barracks guardroom of Buchenwald. The concentration camp was eerily silent. His eyes were drawn to several la… ...

Curt Herzstark's fate seemed to be sealed in 1943 when the Nazis sent him to Buchenwald concentration camp. But then Herzstark, the son of a Jewish industrialist, received the unexpected ...

More than 76,000 men, women and children died at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora during World War II. They were either killed by the Nazis or perished through illness, cold or starvation.

He said he came back to Buchenwald today to visit his father's grave, but it was not there. "His grave is somewhere in the sky, which has become… the largest cemetery of the Jewish people," he said.

He spoke of the importance of sites like Buchenwald. "Memory must bring people together rather than set them apart," he said. (You can find the full remarks from Merkel, Obama and Wiesel here.