Due to construction from November 2010 to October 2011 the archive and the library of the memorial site are only open for limited use. Please excuse any inconveniences.

The archive and library of the Memorial Site are available for public use by appointment only from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Tuesday through Friday.

Please email requests to
archiv@kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de.

When the Concentration Camp Memorial Site was opened in 1965, an archive and library were also created. Both are open to the public and may be used by appointment.

The archive contains materials of varying types and origins:

• Written documents
• Photos (current count over 6,000)
• Plans (Maps, Blueprints, Layouts)
• Original 3-Dimensional relics
• Phonograms (current count 350)
• Films (current count 1,200)

The collection is comprised of materials concerning all aspects of the history of Dachau Concentration Camp. The archive contains a variety of sources, particularly: eye witness reports of survivors, documents related to the development and management of the camp, post-war trial records, and holdings of the international prisoner committee founded after liberation.

In addition, there is material on the history of the camp after 1945 (internment camp in the US Army's War Crimes Program, Refugee Camp) and on the history of the Memorial Site.

These materials are supplemented by an extensive collection of newspaper articles and journal essays dealing with: concentration camps, the Holocaust, resistance, exile, Nazi post-war trials, compensation for crimes perpetrated under National Socialism, and studies of the National Socialist era.

The computerized prisoner registry contains data on more than ninety percent of the over 200,000 prisoners who were detained in Dachau Concentration Camp.

Use of the archive and the computerized prisoner registry are subject to the provisions of Bavarian Archival Law and relevant data protection acts.

The library contains approximately 14,000 volumes on the aforementioned themes upon which the history of the Concentration Camp lies. A collection of unpublished scholarly works complete these holdings.

The books and materials in the library may only be used in the rooms of the Memorial Site and can not be lent out.