![A wooden watchtower can be seen next to a half-open wooden camp gate. In front of it, a Spanish horseman with barbed wire can be seen standing next to the access road.](/.imaging/mte/buchenwald-base-theme/image/dam/Bilder/Dora/MD_Geschichte/MD_Chronologie_Historische-Fotografien/Wachturm-Ellrich-Juliushuette/jcr:content/Wachturm-Ellrich-Juliushuette.jpg)
Camp entrance to the Ellrich-Juliushütte subcamp, 1945 (after liberation). Photo: Georges Philllips.
©Georges Philllips/K.-H. Schwerdtfeger
On 12 April 1945, American soldiers took the town of Ellrich and liberated Ellrich-Juliushütte, the largest subcamp of Mittelbau concentration camp. This year, the commemoration ceremony will take place on Tuesday 16 April at 11 a.m. at the Ellrich-Juliushütte memorial site.