Buchenwald

(12) In the surprisingly sparse scholarly treatment of Semprun, this 'red' dimension of his identity has often been underplayed, in favour of an interpretation that gives primacy to his Buchenwald experience, as if this experience was not also formative in the making and consolidation of his erstwhile communist identity.

Navy ship Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the last of the 28 men who raised their hands when they learned that a liberated concentration camp called Buchenwald in Germany needed volunteers who spoke European languages, the last of this group still alive to recall the horrors they saw in the spring of 1945.

After his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp, however, he faced a momentous, potentially fatal decision: to bear witness as an author or to choose life, for he believed that writing about what he had lived would lead inevitably to his death.

The man who rescued future Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau in Buchenwald will be recognized this week as righteous of the nations.

''These sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time,'' he said after seeing the facilities of the Buchenwald camp, including barbed-wire fences and guard towers.

Later he toured the Buchenwald concentration camp, where an estimated 56,000 people perished.

Later, Obama and Merkel visited the former Buchenwald concentration camp, where an estimated 56,000 people were killed, to commemorate victims of the Holocaust.

On Friday, Obama visited Buchenwald, a former Nazi concentration camp outside the town of Weimar, together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Obama will visit Egypt June 4, fly to the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany June 5, and then go to Normandy June 6 for the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

In late 1945, just months after being rescued from his German captors by Allied forces, Joseph Moser, who grew up in Ferndale, spoke to his hometown Lions Club about his experience in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

A German coffee chain has dropped an advertising campaign that featured a slogan used by the Nazis on the entrance gate to the Buchenwald concentration camp.