Weimar, Germany - Holocaust survivors today marked the 70th anniversary of the Buchenwald concentration camp's by honoring more than 38,000 victims whose identities had previously been unknown.
Buchenwald researchers spent the past decade scouring archives in an attempt to identify thousands of prisoners who lost their lives at Buchenwald between 1937 and 1945, but had been known only by their camp-assigned numbers.
Archivists at the camp, perched on a hillside overlooking the eastern city of Weimer, were able to identify 38,049 victims and enter their names into a memorial book.
"The Nazis tried to reduce humans to numbers, to rob them of their identity," said Jens Goebel, culture minister for the state of Thuringia, upon handing copies of the book to representatives of survivor groups. "That should not be the last word."
About 9,000 who died in death marches as the Nazis tried to evacuate the camp late in World War II, remain unknown. [AP]
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