A group of four Slovenian survivors and their relatives took part in Sunday's ceremony in memory of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.
A total of 2,000 Slovenians were among the 250,000 prisoners kept in the Buchenwald camp and its subsidiaries.
As many as 56,000 people perished in the camp, among them 700 Slovenians. Some 40 prisoners from Slovenia are still alive today.
According to the head of the Slovenian Buchenwald camp committee, Dora Jani Alic, today's ceremony was also attended by Slovenian Ambassador to Germany Dragoljuba Bencina.
The Slovenian group also laid a wreath in front of the "Slovenian pyramid" at the Buchenwald camp.
On Monday, they attended a memorial ceremony at the Mittelbau - Dora camp, where a new information centre was opened.
The ceremony was held 60 years to the day when prisoners at Buchenwald liberated the camp themselves and handed it over to US soldiers.
Representatives of Slovenians layed a wreath at the memorial at Nordhausen, where the Nazis held their work camp.
Over 89.000 Slovenians died during WWII, of whom more than 11,000 perished in concentration camps.
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