Marco Coslovich and the contemporary witness Zoran Music On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, the Italian historian and filmmaker Marco Coslovich will hand over the “Fondo Marco Coslovich” to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. This is a valuable film collection of almost 100 interviews with Italian survivors of the Nazi ...read more

Marco Coslovich On Thursday, December 1 2011, Kerstin Schwenke, a member of the Education Department at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, presents her study Dachauer Gedenkorte zwischen Vergessen und Erinnern – Die Massengräber am Leitenberg und der ehemalige SS-Schießplatz bei Hebertshausen nach 1945. The presentation takes place in cooperation with ...read more

On Friday, January 27, 2012, at the invitation of the “Round Table for Contemporary History” a conversation with a surviving witness will be held as every year to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The guest speaker is yet to be named. The “Round Table for Contemporary History” is made up by ...read more

The archive and library of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site will be closed from February 1, 2012 to March 31, 2012. During this period the holdings currently in storage due to the renovation work will be returned to the completely refurbished archive and library magazine and rooms. During the ten-week ...read more

Opening hours for the Christmas and New Year holidays The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site will be closed to visitors on Saturday, December 24, 2011 (Christmas Eve). For the two Christmas holidays (Sunday/Monday, December 25/26, 2011) and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day the Memorial ...read more

Dr. Jörg Skriebeleit, Dr. Gabriele Hammermann On Wednesday, September 21, 2011, Dr. Jörg Skriebeleit, director of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial Site, presented his doctoral thesis published in 2009, Erinnerungsort Flossenbürg. Akteure, Zäsuren, Geschichtsbilder. Jörg Skriebeleit explored the question as to why the former concentration camp at Flossenbürg, although it was ...read more

Source: BMVBS On October 13, 2011, the German Architecture Prize awards ceremony was held in Dresden’s Albertinum. The main award was won by Sir David Chipperfield for his rebuilding of the Neues Museum in Berlin. One of the five awards for “outstanding building culture in Germany” went to Florian Nagler ...read more

On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, a reading from the book by Henny Seidemann Berlin – Barcelona – München. Eine Münchner Jüdin erzählt took place in the foyer of Dachau’s City Hall to commemorate Pogrom Night. Henny Seidemann, a contemporary witness, was born in Berlin in 1922, she fled to ...read more

One of the principal tasks of the Education Department of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site is to provide tour guides active on the grounds of the Memorial Site with initial or more advanced in-depth training. Thanks to their direct contact with the visitors these tour guides perform important educational ...read more

A blue-checked woolen dress is the only civilian item of prisoner clothing in our collection. The 21-year-old Slovak Margita Lustig wore it from the end of 1944 in the Dachau subcamp Augsburg-Kriegshaber until her liberation in Dachau. On the front she had to sew her Dachau prisoner number and ...read more

The Jewish painter David Ludwig Bloch captured a roll call from November 1938 in an acryl painting Question: Is it true that the number of Jewish prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp rose dramatically as a result of the November pogrom in 1938?   Answer: A quarter of all the 200,000 prisoners detained ...read more

Gruberová, Eva and Zeller, Helmut: Geboren im KZ. Sieben Mütter, sieben Kinder und das Wunder von Kaufering I. With an epilogue by Max Mannheimer. Munich: Beck 2011 As the Americans liberated the Dachau camp on April 29, 1945, they were astonished to find seven women with babies. A miracle was ...read more