29 april 2020. Message of the Comité International de Dachau.
In 12 years of existence, the Dachau camp has been the symbol and the school of the concentration camp universe of repression and negation of Man.
We remember Dachau 'am Leitenberg'
The Dachau concentration camp was liberated on April 29, 1945. Every year we commemorate the liberation from Dachau. On the former concentration camp site, but also on the Leitenberg and the forest cemetery ‘Waldfriedhof’, the final resting place of many victims.
To remember what happened, is the first step to prevent it from happening again.
A virtual commemoration
A few weeks ago, as you probably know, the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, the Bavarian Memorial Foundation and the Comité International de Dachau (CID) had to take the hard decision to cancel all the commemorative events connected with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp. This cancellation also relates to the central commemorative event, which had been planned for Sunday, May 3rd, 2020.
Memorial concert of the city of Dachau
Concert of the city of Dachau on the 75th anniversary of the liberation on April 29 as a stream.
The commemorative concert of the city of Dachau "Music for Freedom" with Francesco Lotoro, planned for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in the Church of the Holy Cross on April 29, cannot take place as planned, due to the continuing ban on events.
24 hours Dachau
Program about the liberation of Dachau and the future of commemoration
With contributions from Barbara Distel, Abba Naor and others.
Program ZDFInfo Doku, broadcast April 15, 2020
59 min.
The program is spoken in German.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial closed
Due to the Corona virus the Memorial Site will be closed until further notice.
The site of the memorial, all exhibition areas, the visitor center and the administration with archive and library are closed.
All events, tours and seminars at the memorial are omitted. Tours of cooperation partners and other providers cannot take place. Access to the memorial site is closed to the public. This also applies to the religious memorial sites on the memorial ground.
Because of the Corona virus the Liberation celebrations in Dachau have been cancelled.
"You are not responsible for what happened.
But that it won't happen again
for that you are. "
Max Mannheimer February 6, 1920 - September 23. 2016
