Inmates' canteen
Description: The area where the Canteen now stands was the site of the temporary camp for 9,845 Jewish men who were brought to Buchenwald in November 1938, following the pogrom called Kristallnacht. By the spring of 1939, most of them had been released after they promised to leave Germany.
Beginning in 1942, the SS operated a sales establishment in the camp: the inmates' canteen. Inmates who were permitted to have their families send money to the camp administration for their use received camp currency to purchase goods which had been acquired cheaply or produced in the camp.
Today the rooms of the canteen are used for special exhibitions and events.
