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Commemoration of the 81th 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

81 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, 13 April. It will begin at 11 am in the reconstructed accommodation barracks of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial.

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

Greetings: Georg Maier, Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia and Minister for the Interior, Local Government and Regional Development of Thuringia; Dr. Robin Mishra, Head of the Department Culture of Remembrance at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Musical accompaniment and speech: Sebastian Krumbiegel, Singer and musician

 

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

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