BUCHENWALD MEMORIAL PUTS PHOTOS ONLINE

Buchenwald memorial puts photos online (JTA)
For the first time, a concentration camp memorial is placing its photo archive online. The memorial at the former Buchenwald concentration camp on Friday will present a digital archive of some of its 10,000 historical photos on the Internet, according to a report by Agence France Presse. The aim is to preserve the memory of victims at a time when fewer survivors and other eyewitnesses remain alive to tell the story.

The announcement was linked to Holocaust Memorial Day on Saturday. Some 56,000 people died at Buchenwald, located outside Weimar in the former East Germany.

The Digital Photo Archive Buchenwald, part of a project begun in 2001 and funded by the German Research Association, is meant as a model for other memorial sites and archives, according to the Foundation for Memorials at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora.

The collection included images of the construction and operation of the camp, as well as photos taken shortly after liberation, portraits of prisoners and photos of the Soviet-era memorial.

HERE'S THEIR WEBSITE.