Buchenwald Concentration Camp - Well-known Inmates

Well-known Inmates

• Roy Allen, American B-17 Flying Fortress pilot
• Jean Améry, writer
• Robert Antelme, French writer
• Jacob Avigdor, before World War II Chief Rabbi of Drohobych, after World War II Chief Rabbi of Mexico
• Conrad Baars, psychiatrist
• Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
• Józef Biniszkiewicz, Polish socialist politician
• Léon Blum, Jewish French politician, pre-war long term French Prime Minister, and again after the war
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Protestant theologian and prominent member of the Confessing Church
• Boris Braun, Croatian University professor
• Rudolf Brazda, as of 2011 the last known surviving homosexual deported to the camps
• Rudolf Breitscheid, former member of the SPD and leader of its faction in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, died in the camp in 1944
• Christopher Burney, British officer and Special Operations Executive operative, wrote about the savage infighting and struggle for power and privileges between the inmates at Buchenwald in The Dungeon Democracy
• Robert Clary, French actor, Corporal Louis LeBeau on the Hogan's Heroes television series
• René Cogny, French general
• Seweryn Franciszek Czetwertyński-Światopełk, Polish politician
• Fritz Czuczka, Austrian artist/architect
• Édouard Daladier, French politician, former Head of the French government
• Armand de Dampierre, French aristocrat, died in the camp on January 8, 1944
• Marcel Dassault, French aviation entrepreneur who founded the Dassault Group
• Almeric Lombard de Buffiers de Rambuteau, French aristocrat, died in the camp on December 14, 1944
• Hélie de Saint Marc, member of the French resistance, later involved in the attempted Algiers putsch
• Pierre d'Harcourt, Travel writer for The Observer, fighter in the French Resistance.
• Laure Diebold, French resistant, Compagnon de la Libération
• Willem Drees, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1948 until 1958
• Ernst Federn, Austrian social-psychologist
• Bolesław Fichna, Polish right-wing politician and lawyer
• Marian Filar, Polish Jewish concert pianist and virtuoso. Played at Carnegie Hall ffter the war
• Maria Forescu, Romanian film actress, died in the camp in 1943
• Josef Frank (politician), Czech communist
• August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest active in resistance movement against the National Socialism
• Henry P. Glass, Austrian Architect and Industrial Designer, released in 1939, moved to U.S.
• Albin Grau, film producer (Nosferatu, 1922)
• Adolf Grunbaum, Austrian physician, released from camp 1939 and emigrated to US. Changed name to Arthur Grant
• Walter Gutheim, German business man who migrated to America after the war
• Maurice Halbwachs French sociologist, died in the camp in 1945
• Curt Herzstark inventor of the Curta calculator, hand-held, hand-cranked mechanical calculator
• Heinrich Eduard Jacob, German writer
• Paul-Emile Janson, Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium, died in the camp in 1944
• Léon Jouhaux, French trade unionist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Józef Kachel, Scout leader, head of the pre-war Polish Scouting Association in Germany
• Imre Kertész writer, 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
• Eugen Kogon, anti-Nazi activist, later Christian Socialist, professor, broadcaster and author of Der SS-Staat ("The SS state"), a significant piece of literature concerning the German concentration camps
• Phillip (Phil) J. Lamason, Squadron Leader, Royal New Zealand Air Force
• Jan Łangowski, Polish social worker and politician active among the Polish diaspora in Germany
• Yisrael Meir Lau (born 1937), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Hermann Leopoldi, Austrian composer and entertainer
• Parlindoengan Loebis, Indonesian physician and activist in the Netherlands
• Fritz Löhner-Beda, Austrian lyricist
• Artur London, senior Czech communist and writer, future government minister
• Jacques Lusseyran, blind French memoirist and professor
• Georges Mandel French politician, former Minister of the Interior, died in the camp in 1944
• Henri Maspero, French Sinologist, pioneering scholar of Taoism, died in the camp in March 1945
• Karl Mayr, Adolf Hitler's immediate superior in an Army Intelligence Division in the Reichswehr, 1919–1920; later becoming a political opponent
• Erik L. Mollo-Christensen, Emeritus Professor of Oceanography, MIT; former Associate Director of Earth Science, NASAtance
• Jean Marcel Nicolas, an black Haitian national, was incarcerated in the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps in Germany
• Andree Peel, Member of the French resistance
• Harry Peulevé, an agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) who managed to escape Buchenwald with F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas.
• Henri Christiaan Pieck, Dutch painter and twin brother of Anton Pieck
• Franciszek Myśliwiec, Polish politician and social worker
• John H. Noble, American-born gulag survivor and author
• Count Albert de Nadaillac, head of a French resistance organisation (ORA-Tours Angers Le Mans). He survived, but his younger brother, count Michel de Nadaillac, also involved in the resistance died in Dora.
• Paul Rassinier, considered the father of Holocaust denial
• Jakob Rosenfeld, minister of health under Mao
• Baron Otto of Schmidburg, minor German noble, died in the camp on July 23, 1941
• Herbert Sandberg, artist, designer, publisher of Ulenspiegel
• Etta Sapon, Italian, Dramatic actress
• Paul Schneider, German pastor, died in the camp in 1939
• Jorge Semprún, Spanish intellectual and politician and culture minister of Spain (1988–91)
• Jura Soyfer, Austrian poet and dramatist, died in the camp in 1939
• Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany, died in the camp in April 1944
• Jack van der Geest, escapee
• William Arthur Waldram, Canadian Lancaster tail gunner, General Motors executive
• Fred Wander, Austrian writer
• Ernst Wiechert, German writer
• Elie Wiesel, Romanian Jewish French-American writer, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, Royal Air Force Wing Commander and British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, codenamed "The White Rabbit". Returned to England in 1945
• Petr Zenkl, Czech National Social Party politician, deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1946-1948)