 At the Verleihungsakt in Siegen by the Israeli ambassador on 11 April 2000, the 55th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp was attended by over 400 people.In West Germany, Kraemer was not widely known and only remembered without ceremony - as a consequence he long remained largely unknown.On what would have been his 110th birthday, 2002 in Goslar Hahndorf on the initiative of the association "Tracing Goslar" a memorial to the former concentration camp subcamp, in which Kraemer was murdered.