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City of Jena commemorates the 1945 death march with two events

02.04.2026

Book presentation

Childhood in the shadow of horror
Memories of Robert Jehoshua Büchler

  • When? Thursday, 09.04.2026, 18.00 hrs
  • Where? Hall in the historic town hall, Markt 1, Jena

Robert Jehoshua Büchler, survivor of the death march through Jena in 1945, wrote down his memories of his time of persecution by the National Socialists in the 1980s as a Hebrew family book for his children - as a personal legacy and an act of remembrance. The book is now available in German.

The subjective eyewitness account traces the path of a Jewish teenager from a sheltered childhood through persecution, deportation and concentration camp imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, among other places, to his escape near Jena. The report is supplemented by historical background information.

Commemoration of the victims of the death march through Jena
with the dedication of a stele in memory of the forced labor camp in Wenigenjena

Around 4,000 prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp were driven through Jena on the death march on April 11, 1945. As every year, the city commemorates this last crime committed in the city during the National Socialist era, to which several people fell victim.

This year, the exploitation of forced laborers in Jena will also be examined in depth. Jens-Christian Wagner, Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, will speak on this topic. An information stele will be unveiled at the memorial site, the location of a Nazi forced labor camp.

  • When? Friday, 10.04.2026, 16:00 hrs.
  • Where? Robert-Büchler-Weg / Am Erlkönig