Alaïs, granddaughter of the French resistance fighter Jean-Baptiste

From Quimper to Dachau

It's going to be a long road. We're getting organized. We're planning the route. We're packing our things.
But ultimately, nothing can prepare you for such an encounter.
The Dachau concentration camp.

As a child, I remember my grandfather banging his fist on the table to make me finish eating my green beans.
Gone too soon, today I'm going far away to find him. Far away in the horror, far from our homes, far from all humanity.
Jean-Baptiste and his brother Henri are arrested in France for acts of resistance.
Initially imprisoned at Eysses prison, they will later be deported to the Dachau camp.

The exhibition catalogue as a digital medium!

E CATALOGUE USB: The Dachau concentration camp, 1933 to 1945

This credit card-sized e-catalogue with fold-out USB stick is designed like an e-book. Look up the table of contents and turn to the appropriate page, or browse through the product page by page. Every picture, every document, the entire exhibition of the memorial at a glance. 

Images and stories from the 80th anniversary of the liberation can be found here

This year, the texts with focus on the younger generation are linked to the images in comic strip form.

Marine:

History teaches us that authoritarianism and populism, as manifested during the Second World War, enabled individuals and institutions to justify oppression and persecution. Hatred, when unchecked, becomes a destructive force that crushes human dignity. It is imperative that we study these mechanisms, not only to understand how they developed, but also to learn how to recognize them in our own time. Identifying these patterns allows us to be better prepared to respond, to resist, and to act, whether we are witnesses, victims, or, sometimes unknowingly, accomplices.

"Preparing for the future is what we are all doing here, public authorities, memorial staff and remembrance associations from all over the world, based on the values bequeathed to us by the survivors. We take care to look at the past objectively, but without concession, and we treat it as a field of experience whose analysis is necessary to find the right paths for the future. Finally, we share this knowledge with the younger generations in the most appropriate way possible, guided by the notion of ‘Never Again’."

The television broadcast of Sunday 4 May can be viewed via the link below

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The General André Delpech Prize awarded at the CID general meeting

The general André Delpech prize 2025 will be awarded to Mr Florian Hartmann, Mayor of Dachau, for the active support given by the town of Dachau to the CID, the Memorial and the Foundation's commemoration policy and activities, as well as for its active support for requests from national associations. The prize will be presented by the President of the CID, Mr Dominique Boueilh.

In 2020, for reasons linked to the COVID, the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation of the 42nd Division was unable to collect the Delpech Prize. This year, a delegation from the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation has travelled to Dachau and will be present at the ceremony to receive it. The prize will be presented by General Jean-Michel Thomas, former President of the CID.

-- Exceptionally, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary, a diploma of recognition will be awarded to the 45th Division for its participation in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. It will be presented by President of the CID, Mr Dominique Boueilh.

Visit to the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (Munich)

On the morning of Saturday 29 April, members of the Amicale française de Dachau visited the Documentation Centre on the History of National Socialism (NS-Dokumentationszentrum München) in the company of two French-speaking guides.
Opened to the public in April 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Munich, this fabulous museum provides detailed explanations of the creation and rise to power of the Nazi regime, as well as its aftermath and the future direction of society. It is therefore a place of historical education, but also of political questioning with a resolutely forward-looking approach.

Appeal of the International Committees of Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps:

Stop this war immediately!

As long as..

As long as your grandchildren remember your story,

there's hope they need not experience your past.