In response to protests by Holocaust survivors, German authorities have decided to preserve the site of the Dora-Nordhausen slave labor camp as a memorial to the victims who perished there.
Hartmut Sieckmann, minister of ecology of Thuringia, told the state parliament in Erfurt last Friday that a compromise had been reached that will keep the memorial while mining for gypsum in the region continues.
The German Jewish community was among many groups that campaigned against plans to demolish the camp in Thuringia, where the Nazis built their V-2 rockets in vast underground chambers, using Jewish and other slave laborers.
Heinz Galinski, chairman of the German Jewish community, was an inmate at Dora-Nordhausen.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
