Work began Tuesday on restoring a memorial at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The memorial, which was created in 1958 and includes a group of 11 bronze figures, depicts prisoners’ resistance to their Nazi guards. The restoration is expected to take two to three years and cost some $990,000, according to The Associated Press.
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