page_title: List of prisoners of Buchenwald
section_title: List of prisoners
hierarchical_section_title: List of prisoners of Buchenwald / List of prisoners
caption_attribution_description: The bullet-ridden bodies of two SS guards who were killed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp soon after the liberation. Lieutenant Colonel Parke O. Yingst was born in Hummelstown, PA in 1908. In 1930 he graduated from the Colorado School of Mines and joined the Army Corps of Engineers as a reservist. He subsequently went to work in Venezuela. During this period, his reserve commission expired. After returning to the United States in 1940, Yingst applied for recommissioning so that he could join the fight against Hitler. In 1942 he was ordered to active duty as a First Lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers. On April 4, 1944 he was promoted to Major, and in July, he assumed command of the 281st Engineer Combat Battalion. In April 1945 Yingst was present at the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. He was eventually promoted to Lieutenant Colonel prior to his separation from the army for medical reasons.
context_page_description: During the history of Buchenwald concentration camp, thousands of people were imprisoned.
context_section_description: Roy Allen, American pilot
  Jean Améry, Austrian-Belgian writer
  Robert Antelme, French writer
  Jacob Avigdor, before World War II Chief Rabbi of Drohobych, afterward Chief Rabbi of Mexico
  Conrad Baars, psychiatrist
  Fritz Beckhardt, German-Jewish World War l fighter pilot
  Robert Benoist, French world champion motor racing driver and member of the British Special Operations Executive, executed on 9 September 1944
  Bruno Bettelheim, Jewish Austrian-American child psychologist
  Józef Biniszkiewicz, Polish socialist politician
  Léon Blum, Jewish French politician, pre-and post-war long-term French prime minister
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Protestant theologian and prominent member of the Confessing Church
  Boris Braun, Croatian University professor
  Rudolf Brazda, the last known surviving homosexual deported to the camps; died in 2011
  Rudolf Breitscheid, former member of the SPD and leader of its faction in the Weimar Reichstag, died in the camp in 1944
  Christopher Burney, British officer and Special Operations Executive (SOE) operative
  Marian Ciepielowski, Polish physician
  Robert Clary, French actor, Corporal Louis LeBeau in the Hogan's Heroes television series
  René Cogny, French general
  Seweryn Franciszek Światopełk-Czetwertyński, Polish politician
  Édouard Daladier, French politician, former head of the French government
  Marcel Dassault, French aviation entrepreneur who founded the Dassault Group
  Hélie de Saint Marc, member of the French resistance, later involved in the attempted Algiers putsch of 1961
  Léon Delarbre, French artist and museum curator
  Laure Diebold, French resistant, Compagnon de la Libération
  Willem Drees, Dutch politician and prime minister, held as hostage in Buchenwald from 1940 to 1941
  Ernest Emanuel Israel Dreyfus, painter who emigrated to London and then to Chicago, Illinois
  Franz Ehrlich, German architect, designer of the Buchenwald entrance gates
  Marian Filar, Polish Jewish concert pianist and virtuoso.
  Ludwik Fleck, Polish serologist and philosopher of science.
  Maria Forescu, Romanian film actress, died in the camp in 1943
  Henri Frager, French resistance member, second in command of CARTE, then head of DONKEYMAN network
  Josef Frank (politician), Czech communist
  Joseph Friedenson, writer and editor
  August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest active in resistance movement against the National Socialism
  Henry P. Glass, Austrian Architect and Industrial Designer, transferred from Dachau in September 1938, released in January 1939, moved to the US
  Albin Grau, film producer (Nosferatu, 1922)
  Maurice Halbwachs French sociologist, died in the camp in 1945
  Max Hamburger, Dutch psychiatrist
  Bertrand Herz, French engineer, president of IKBD (International Committee Buchenwald Dora and commandos)
  Curt Herzstark inventor of the Curta calculator, hand-held, hand-cranked mechanical calculator
  Heinrich Eduard Jacob, German writer
  Paul-Émile 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
  Phillip (Phil) J. Lamason, Squadron Leader, Royal New Zealand Air Force
  Yisrael Meir Lau (born 1937), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
  Hermann Leopoldi, Austrian composer and entertainer
  Fritz Löhner-Beda, Austrian lyricist
  Artur London, senior Czech communist and writer, future government minister
  Jacques Lusseyran, blind French memoirist and professor
  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, died in the camp in 1945
  Mel Mermelstein
  Paul Morgan, Austrian actor, died in the camp in 1938
  John H. Noble, American-born gulag survivor and author; Family owner of the Praktica Camera factory, Dresden 1945
  Andrée Peel, Member of the French resistanc
caption: The bullet-ridden body of one SS guard, the other stabbed, who were killed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp soon after the liberation.
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