Crematorium

Here, 3,500 prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp were cremated between August 1937 and August 1940. Because the original ovens had been irreparably damaged by the large-scale use, they were replaced in December 1940 by ovens from Topf & Söhne, the company that was also responsible for the crematorium ovens in the concentration camps. From mid-1940, the Buchenwald camp had its own crematorium, so that the city crematorium no longer had to be used.

Ehrenhain der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VdN)

On August 28, 1946, the urns of 115 people who had been murdered by the Gestapo in the Webicht, a forest near Weimar, in the last days of the war were buried in the birch grove on the east side of the cemetery. Two years later, on September 12, 1948, a memorial was unveiled at this location "for the unknown victims of fascism from the Buchenwald camp." The memorial stone, which in its basic form is reminiscent of the "stone of good luck" in the garden of Goethe's summer house, has the red triangle of the political concentration camp prisoners on the top. The dedication "Immortal victims, you have perished" is taken from the workers' song of the same name.

The complex was redesigned in 1961, and a collective grave was created for the Webicht victims - now referred to as "One Hundred and Fourteen Unknown Victims". Since 1948, victims of the Nazi regime who died after the war, including Buchenwald prisoners, have also been buried in the grove of honor. In 1976, a comprehensive redesign included the creation of another urn field, which is surrounded by walls on which plaques with the names and dates of birth and death of the men and women buried here are attached. The complex was last expanded in the late 1980s.