Overview

• The Schlieben-Berga subcamp, once forgotten, has been restored as a memorial by a civic association to preserve its history.
• The site was the third-largest of Buchenwald's 136 subcamps, holding up to 5,000 prisoners, primarily women, forced into armaments production.
• Approximately 130 surviving prisoners were liberated by the Red Army on April 21, 1945, after enduring forced labor under dire conditions.
• Cultural State Secretary Tobias Dünow emphasized the importance of such sites in exposing the pervasive KZ system and the complicity of German industry.
• Upcoming commemorations will continue at the Sachsenhausen memorial on May 4, with state leaders Dietmar Woidke and Kai Wegner expected to attend.