New museum opens in time for 60th anniversary of the liberation of Mittelbau-Dora

A new museum has been inaugurated on the site of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Germany, to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation. Warren Miller, chairman of the US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, said the museum would be part of a “never-ending obligation to truthfully remember what happened and to honor the memory of the victims of National Socialism who suffered and died in places like Dora.” The. commission helped develop a site model of the concentration camp in front of the museum. On Monday, a ceremony was held to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Mittelbau-Dora by American forces. 150 former inmates joined dignitaries near the town of Nordhausen. The concentration camp was a satellite of the larger Buchenwald concentration camp where around 56,000 people, mainly Jews and political dissidents, died between 1937 and 1945.