Trees in memory of Holocaust victims cut Seven trees memorialising people who died at Buchenwald during the Holocaust were chopped down on Tuesday near the former concentration camp outside Weimar, Germany, in what the International Committee of Buchenwald Dora called a “horrible act of vandalism”. The foundation that runs the Buchenwald memorial complex announced the news on Twitter. The trees were part of the 1,000 Beeches project, an effort to plant trees along the 189km route that prisoners from Buchenwald were forced to march in April 1945 when the Nazis tried to evacuate the camp as US forces closed in....