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Nordhausen / Ellrich (dpa / th) - A youth association wants to use a project to remember the people who died of complications in mental hospitals after their liberation from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
For this, the association Jugend für Dora would like to present the life and suffering stories of these people.
Social media platforms are also to be used for this, as the association announced on Thursday.
In addition, the village cemetery in Sülzhayn, a district of Ellrich (Nordhausen district), should be remembered of the fate of the liberated.
According to the information, there is a memorial in the cemetery.
This is dedicated to the approximately 60 concentration camp prisoners and forced laborers who came to Sülzhayn to treat tuberculosis in sanatoriums after their liberation, but died.
They are buried in the cemetery.
Starting on Saturday, stickers with the short biographies of the dead and further information on historical backgrounds should be found in several places in Sülzhayn, Ellrich and the surrounding villages.
The project can be found on Twitter and Instagram under the name "Liberated.Gestorben.Vergessen".
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In the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, tens of thousands were forced to work on the expansion of aircraft and fuel plants in 1944/45.
On April 11, US troops liberated the remaining prisoners.
The SS had previously cleared most of the camps so that several thousand were no longer there when the Americans arrived.
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