In addition to the regular tours, every month the Education Department of the Memorial Site offers tours and excursions focusing on specific themes. • Saturday, Feb 18, 2012: The Memorial Site’s permanent exhibition – curator tour. • Saturday, March 10, 2012: Women in the Dachau concentration camp • Saturday, April 14, 2012: Prisoner groups in the Dachau concentration ...read more

On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 the Memorial Site will mark the 100th birthday of Eugen Kessler, a former Dachau concentration camp prisoner, by holding a function in his honor. The event is scheduled to begin at 7 pm in the Visitors’ Center. Admission is free and no prior registration ...read more

Extension of opening hours Opening hours will be extended as of March 2012: the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site will also be open to visitors on Mondays from 9 am to 5 pm, meaning that December 24 is the only day of the year the Memorial ...read more

67th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp On Sunday, April 29, 2012, a remembrance service will be held in order to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp. This event will take place at the invitation of the ...read more

In the National Museum for Contemporary History in Ljubljana there are some 80 postcard-sized drawings capturing scenes from life in the Dachau concentration camp. The works by the Slovenian architect Vlasto Kopàč (1913-2006) are unique documents of the concentration camp from the years 1944/45. They show torture, repression, and everyday ...read more

Former Plantation Parts of the site of one of the early external work details attached to the main Dachau concentration camp, the so-called herb garden, are in a state of neglect. Although listed as historical monuments, buildings are dilapidated. What should be done? Starting from a specific example, the planned ...read more

Felix Möller, Dr. Gabriele Hammermann, Marco Coslovich On November 23 2011 the Italian historian Marco Coslovich was a guest of the Memorial Site. Coslovich handed over some 150 interviews he has conducted since the 1980s with persons from Italy’s northeast persecuted by the Nazis, from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region ...read more

Due to the overwhelming interest, more chairs had to be fetched in the Church of Reconciliation on December 1, 2011 as Kerstin Schwenke presented her book Erinnerungskultur in Dachau – Der Umgang mit den Massengräbern am Leitenberg und dem ehemaligen Schießplatz bei Hebertshausen nach 1945. The study by the historian and ...read more

Death March Landsberg a.L. April 1945. Source: StadtA Landsberg a.L. Only a few of the some 25,000 prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp forced onto the death marches found the strength after 1945 to write down their experiences. The Memorial Site archive preserves their accounts of hunger, senseless exertions, ...read more

Abba Naor was this year’s contemporary witness invited to the discussion round held on January 27, 2012 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Dachau’s Ludwig-Thoma-Haus. The hall was filled to capacity as Dr. Gabriele Hammermann, director of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, asked Abba Naor about his ...read more

As of December 2011 visitors to the Dachau Memorial Site can take advantage of nine new audio stations in the exhibition. With the aid of interview sequences and quotations from prisoner accounts, these stations enable visitors to find out more about the history of the Dachau concentration camp from ...read more

Chaim Glick In October 2011 Sister Elija handed over to the Memorial Site archive black-and-white photographs which she had taken of survivors of the Dachau concentration camp for the last twenty years. Sister Elija is active at the Carmelite convent Dachau since 1966. She began her photographic documentation of the Memorial ...read more

Josef Stressel, shot on 11.08.1940 "while trying to escape" Question: Is it true that some prisoners succeeding in escaping from the Dachau concentration camp? Answer: Up until 1939 escape attempts were very rare, every successful escape had to be reported directly to Himmler and the Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps. The only escape ...read more

Beimler, Hans: Im Mörderlager Dachau. Edited, commented and with a biographical sketch by Friedbert Mühldorfer. Cologne: PapyRossa Verlag 2012Shortly after his hazardous escape from the Dachau concentration camp in May 1933, the Bavarian Communist and Reichstag deputy Hans Beimler wrote about his ordeal. His published account was translated into ...read more