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Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation

15.04.2024, 13:00 PM‒18:00 PM

Commemoration

Mittelbau-Dora Memorial

The photo shows the faces of a group of figures representing four prisoners standing in a row of two. Their faces look sad and sunken.
Bronze sculpture on the comemorative square in front of the crematorium, 2022. Photo: Lukas Severin Damm. ©KZ-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora

80 years ago, on 11 April 1945, the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was liberated by US troops. This year, the commemoration ceremony will take place on Monday, 7 April. It will begin at 11 am in the reconstructed accommodation barracks of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial. This will be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony on the memorial square in front of the former crematorium.

 

Welcome: Andreas Froese, director of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial

Greetings: Dr Thadäus König, President of the Thuringian Landtag

Speech: Julia Romantschenko, granddaughter of concentration camp survivor Boris Romantschenko

 

Musical accompaniment: Sophia Dobra, Artur Hubert and Masanori Tsuboi, Loh-Orchestra Sondershausen

 

Followed by: Wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial square in front of the former crematorium

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