In the Buchenwald concentration camp, a student with a gaza debate ensures a scandal

At a memorial event with a concentration camp survivor to liberate the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp 80 years ago, a young participant triggered a scandal. When presenting a youth project in English, she spoke of the fact that there is currently a “genocide” in Palestine. Some guests expressed their displeasure with boos.

The director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation, Jens-Christian Wagner, intervened directly: It must be able to mourn the innocently killed there-but to speak of a “genocide”, especially in a place like Buchenwald.

The ambassador of Israel, Ron Prosor, also came to the wreath. The young participant had talked about the fact that Buchenwald would have to be drawn from Buchenwald and that one had to be loud even today in the event of injustices.

Previously, the 92-year-old Naftali Fürst, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camp, had spoken at the event. “We are very few, soon we will finally pass on the staff of memory and we will give them a historical responsibility,” said Fürst to the listeners. According to the foundation, nine concentration camp survivors were present when laying the wreath.

Since the summer of 1937, the National Socialists had abducted around 280,000 people to the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar and its 139 outer camps. 56,000 people were murdered or died of hunger, diseases, through forced labor or medical experiments. US troops reached the camp on April 11, 1945 and freed the survivors.