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Introduction Thesis Award
The Comité International de Dachau has established a Thesis Award. The Comité is funding the award in memory of the victims of the national-socialist concentration and extermination camps, in particular the concentration camp Dachau.
Speech by General, Jean-Michel Thomas
President of the International Dachau Committee
1 May 2016
Introducing Jean-Michel Thomas
For a few months Jean-Michel Thomas replaced Pieter Dietz de Loos as chairman of the international Dachau Commitee (CID) .
Time to ask Jean-Michel Thomas to introduce himself bij answering some questions .
70th anniversary of Liberation Day
Speech of CID President Pieter Dietz de Loos
"We have to stay vigilant in the face of misinformation! We must never forget, that Dachau was a camp for the political resistance. First, German political prisoners and members of the resistance were detained, tortured and killed. Then came political opponents from all over Europe. Three quarters of the prisoners were members of the resistance, political deportees."
Speech by German Federal Chancellor Merkel
At the commemorative ceremony for the 70th
anniversary of the liberation of the
Dachau concentration camp on 3 May 2015
Greetings by Max Mannheimer
"We live amidst breath-taking progress in the sciences and technology,
and in worldwide connectedness. But at the same time,
have we learned anything about what it means to be human?"
Commemoration in front of the former cremation building
Words of Jean Samuel
" I was 21 years old and decided to forget Dachau.
I wanted to live life. The war had stolen my youth.
In 1947, I married, had 2 children,
In 1947, I married, had 2 children,
and since that time, it's been pure happiness."
Speech on behalf of the CID at the former roll-call grounds
