Weimar (dpa/th) – Six survivors of the Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald are made honorary citizens of the city of Weimar. The French Jacques Bloch, Armand Bulwa, Robert Galafrio, Jacques Moalic, Raymond Renaud and Raymond Touraud are to be honored in this way at a ceremony on Sunday (6 p.m.). The men, who are now 93 to 95 years old, were deported to the concentration camp near Weimar between autumn 1943 and January 1945, where they survived forced labor and inhuman prison conditions. The Weimar city council had decided in September to make them honorary citizens. The proposal came from the French Association of Buchenwald Survivors.
By shortly before the end of the Second World War, the National Socialists had deported around 280,000 people from all over Europe to the Buchenwald concentration camp set up in 1937 and its satellite camps. More than 56,000 were murdered, died of starvation, disease, medical experiments. The city of Weimar has already made several survivors honorary citizens.
