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

We are delighted that Friedbert Mühldorfer will present his new edition of Hans Beimler’s Im Mörderlager Dachau in the Dachau Memorial Site on Wednesday, November 28. Hans Beimler, a key figure in the South Bavaria branch of the German Communist Party, was sent to the newly setup Dachau concentration ...read more

Further screenings in the series “Das wirst du nie verstehen”, a cooperation with the Munich Film Museum and Max Mannheimer Study Center at the Munich Film Museum: • Sunday, Jan 20 2013: Gerdas Schweigen • Sunday, Feb 10 2013: Winterkinder – die schweigende Generation Screenings begin at 5:30 pm; tickets cost 4 Euros (3 ...read more

From June 1 to 3 2012 the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site staged a conference in cooperation with the City of Dachau authority entitled “Redevelopment – Reconstruction – Redesign: Dealing with Historical Buildings in Memorial Sites” Under the title of “Redevelopment – Reconstruction – Redesign: Dealing with Historical Buildings in Memorial Sites” ...read more

Ehemaliger Kräutergarten On June 20 before an interested audience Izhak Akermann told the story of his persecuted past, an account that lasted almost two hours. Izhak Akermann was born at the end of 1927 in Danzig to Polish-Jewish parents. Sent to the Radom ghetto shortly after the outbreak of the war, ...read more

Ehemaliger Kräutergarten Following an invitation by the Memorial Site, on Wednesday July 11, the Austrian literary scholars Stefan Maurer and Martin Wedl presented their annotated new edition of Zeit ohne Gnade, a work first published in 1946. The author Rudolf Kalmar, an Austrian journalist, was deported to the Dachau concentration camp ...read more

The film series “Das wirst du nie verstehen” was launched on Sunday, September 23. In cooperation with the Film Museum Munich and the Max Mannheimer Study Center, the documentary Was bleibt from 2008 was screened. The documentary Was bleibt from 2008 explores family entanglements in the Holocaust, from both ...read more

The Italian contemporary witness Riccardo Goruppi was the guest of the Dachau Concentration Camp on September 26. An audience of 80 gathered to hear more about Riccardo Goruppi’s life story. Riccardo Goruppi is born in January 1927 in Prosecco near Trieste. As German troops occupy Italy in September 1943 he ...read more

The documentary 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him (2005) was screened at the Munich Film Museum on Sunday, October 28 2012. Hanns Elard Ludin was already a well-known figure in the Weimar Republic, conspiring as young Reichswehr officer with Hitler. After 1933 he quickly rose to the post of ...read more

In cooperation with the Bavarian-Slovenian Society, the Memorial Site has continued its series of discussions with contemporary witnesses on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The guest for this round was the well-known Slovenian writer Boris Pahor.   A winner of many literary awards, Boris Pahor was born in Trieste in 1913, at the ...read more

The film Das wirst du nie verstehen (2003) was screened at the Munich Film Museum on Sunday, November 25, 2012. In her film Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who were key figures in her upbringing. During the Nazi era all three were still girls; today, they tell ...read more

Exhibition “Blickwechsel - Vlasto Kopàč zeichnet das Konzentrationslager Dachau” Opened on April 26 and created in close cooperation with the Museum of Modern History in Ljubljana, the exhibition “Blickwechsel” (“Another View”) presents a unique collection of secret drawings by the Slovenian architect Vlasto Kopàč (1913-2006). Some ...read more

In March 2012 the renovated and redesigned rooms located in the eastern wing of the concentration camp’s former maintenance building were once again ready. Except for minor alterations, this section had hardly changed since 1965. Renovations were thus urgently needed. The goal of the building measures, carried out by ...read more

Developed by the education department of the Dachau Memorial Site and the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, the educational module “Munich and the Dachau concentration camp – ‘Topographie der Erinnerung’” comprises concepts for two-day seminars, for single or two-day excursions as well as a variety ...read more

We are very pleased to be able to warmly welcome four new staff members to the Memorial Site. Dr. Andrea Riedle will take over responsibility for the Research Department in December 2012. Laurie Slegtenhorst and Nils Greiten have joined the team in the Education Department. Lukas Schretter is a ...read more

A look into … the archive The commandant’s villa after 1945. Together with his family, Benjamin Weisberg lived in the villa once reserved for the commandants of the Dachau concentration camp from 1947 to 1950. During this period Lieutenant Weisberg was the chief commander of the forces ...read more

Question: Is it correct that not only members of the SS were deployed as guards in concentration camps, but also regular army soldiers? Answer: The first guards at the Dachau concentration camp upon its opening in March 1933 were members of the Bavarian State Police, before after a few weeks ...read more

Benz, Wolfgang; Distel, Barbara; Königseder, Angelika (Hrsg.): Nationalsozialistische Zwangslager. Strukturen und Regionen; Täter und Opfer. Dachau: Verlag Dachauer Hefte; Berlin: Metropolverlag 2011 For the most part the National Socialist concentration camps have been exhaustively researched and depicted. The Dachauer Hefte, published from 1985 to 2010 as a periodical, played a ...read more