{"id":5188,"date":"2019-04-11T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.org.uk\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2019-04-15T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:17:12","slug":"buchenwald-registration-card-tells-a-calculated-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.org.uk\/2019\/04\/11\/buchenwald-registration-card-tells-a-calculated-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Buchenwald Registration Card Tells a Calculated Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
On this day, 74 years ago, Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by the American army. Buchenwald was established in Weimar, Germany in 1934 and was one of the largest work camps created. It was infamous for its brutality and cruelty\u2014a place of forced labor, medical experimentation and widespread death, with over 56,000 murdered. The Jewish Museum has countless objects, documents and photos in their collections from Buchenwald in addition to their Holocaust exhibit focused on Buchenwald survivor, Leon Greenman. This prisoner card, donated by Mark Goldfinger to the museum in 2013, calls attention to the details that the SS found important to document, degrading him, dehumanizing him and marking him with a number, stripping him of his identity and reducing him only to the information on the card below.<\/p>\n