Visit to Buchenwald

On Wednesday, May 10, we, classes 9a and b, visited the Buchenwald Memorial on the Ettersberg near Weimar.
Our visit began with a tour of the grounds around the bell tower, the "Tower of Freedom". The walk past the seven steles, which stand for seven years of Buchenwald camp history, down to the "Road of Nations" was impressive. Among other things, it connects three ring graves (mass graves for the dead from the concentration camp). We then walked up the "Stairway to Freedom" towards the bell tower. We looked at the largest bronze figure group dedicated to the resistance struggle, created by Fritz Cremer, and heard the muffled sound of the Buchenwald bell. We were able to read the "Buchenwald Oath" on the door of the tower.
Our 2-hour tour of the former concentration camp began with a film in which, among other things, contemporary witnesses had their say. This gave us an insight into the arrival of the prisoners, their work, their lives and also their deaths...
We walked along the so-called "Kachacho Road", on which the prisoners were brought to the camp, and visited both the main camp and the crematorium.
The effort and the impressions, due to the difficult and moving topic, were clearly noticeable on the bus ride back. However, we had the opportunity to discuss what we had experienced and seen with our teachers afterwards.