Buchenwald

American

[boo-kuhn-wawld, book-uhn-, bookh-uhn-vahlt] / ˈbu kənˌwɔld, ˈbʊk ən-, ˈbux ənˌvɑlt /

noun

site of a former Nazi concentration camp in central Germany, near Weimar.

Buchenwald British

/ ˈbuːxənvalt /

noun

a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)

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Many of the artefacts scheduled to be auctioned were said to have come from the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps.

From BBC

The macabre object was given to then-Caerphilly MP Ness Edwards, who went with a parliamentary delegation to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 to gather evidence of the horrors of the Holocaust.

From BBC

He first marched to concentration camp Buchenwald and later on to Terezin, where he was liberated on the brink of death from exhaustion and typhus.

From BBC

Those who survived were put onto open cattle cart trains heading further west, usually to other concentration camps, like Buchenwald.

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While there, he and Aramin also toured the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald.

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