Buchenwald
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Buchenwald is a one of the many sites the held Jewish concentration camps. The concentration camp was established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. Now it is now a memorial site and a place filled with history. There is also a museum on the grounds.It contained 250,000 prisoners and was freed by the United states. Elie Wiesel was in this camp during his younger life. He stayed there for a short period of time and was moved to the next camp. His time in Buchenwald was better than the other camps. It was calm in Buchenwald and the violence was low. In 1944, Hungarian Jews were transported to Buchenwald from Auschwitz. The weather is chilly and in the summer it usually only gets into the 70’s. In the winter temperatures dip down to 30 degrees. The memorial site is open from 10 AM to 6 PM.
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