Virtual Tour

15 Memorial room

Currently more than 130 commemorative plaques and stones are in the memorial room at the end of the main exhibition. The room serves to remember individuals and groups imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. Private persons and institutions are able to donate plaques commemorating victims of the Dachau concentration camp.

In 2011, three terminals were installed in the memorial room that allow visitors to view the “Book of Remembrance for the Dead of the Dachau Concentration Camp” in digital and printed versions. The remembrance book gives the prisoners who died from the torture inflicted, the inhuman living conditions, or were murdered, their names again, enabling individual commemoration in dignity. Visitors can use the terminals to research the name, nationality, profession, place and date of birth as well as the date of death of the prisoners. The remembrance book contains the names of 33,205 dead. It has proven impossible to identify the names of 8,300 men and women killed in the Dachau concentration camp.

The photo shows a view of the memory room. Various plaques in different colors and shapes hang from the walls, mounted to commemorate individual victims or victim groups. Memorial plaques and objects are also exhibited in the two glass steles in the middle of the room.

View of the memorial room, 2017 (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site)

Located on the right of the entrance to the memory room are three terminals; they enable visitors to look through the “Book of Remembrance for the Dead of the Dachau Concentration Camp” using a name register.

Terminals enable visitors access to the “Book of Remembrance for the Dead of the Dachau Concentration Camp”, 2017 (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site)