Père-Lachaise in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
1. Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial - inscription
May this forever show how Man had to fall, and how courage and devotion preserve his humanity
Erected 1964 by Association des Déportés de Buchenwald-Dora.
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.
Location. 48° 51.612′ N, 2° 23.989′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Père-Lachaise. It is on Avenue Circulaire, on the left when traveling north. The memorial is in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Section 97. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Paris, Île-de-France 75020, France. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, Europe, the European Union, Atlantic Europe, the Schengen Area, Western Europe, a coastal Mediterranean country, and the Western World. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony and also the Roman
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Dachau Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Auschwitz III Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Jewish Children Holocaust Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Nous sommes 900 Français / We are 900 Frenchmen (Convoy 73) Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.
Also see . . . Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp (Wikipedia).
Overview: Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many Eastern countries occupied by(Submitted on May 6, 2024.)Germany (including evacuated survivors of eastern extermination camps), for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. In the summer of 1944, Mittelbau became an independent concentration camp with numerous subcamps of its own. In 1945, most of the surviving inmates were sent on death marches or crammed in trains of box-cars by the SS. On 11 April 1945, US troops freed the remaining prisoners.Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 20242. Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial
The inmates at Dora-Mittelbau were treated in a brutal and inhumane manner, working 14-hour days and being denied access to basic hygiene, beds, and adequate rations. Around one in three of the roughly 60,000 prisoners who were sent to Dora-Mittelbau died.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
3. Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial - detail
The sculpture was created by Louis Bancel, and the inscription is by the French poet Louis Aragon.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
4. Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial - wider view
Credits. This page was last revised on May 7, 2024. It was originally submitted on May 6, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 144 times since then and 6 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on May 6, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
