 On 25 April 2011, the 66th anniversary of the liberation by the United States Army, the camp community of the concentration camp Buchenwald-Dora honored him with a plaque.It was the first award for a German.It was attended from Siegerland groups of Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Federation of antifascists and anti-fascists (VVN-BdA) and the DKP part.