The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic awarded to Gabrielle HammermannLate October, the President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano awarded the Order of Merit to the director of the Dachau memorial.
Press release:
The International Dachau Committee
learned with great shock and emotion of
the theft of the entrance gate.
STATEMENT OF THE DACHAU INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE' PRESIDENTMr. Pieter Dietz de Loos,
Sunday 4-th of May 2014
69th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
Speech by Dr. Max Mannheimer
"Every day we see in the media, new images
of horror from the various crises and War zones.
No hot-spot is far enough away anymore that it
could not touch us and cause fear and worry."
Annual Youth Meeting Dachau."Remember - understand - designing the future."
About 100 young people from around the world meet at the 'International Youth Meeting Dachau'.
from 26. Juli 2014 until 08. August 2014
"I think mother that we get half a year. [ ... ] I have
faith Mother, hopefully we are back home later this year .
At its 19 October meeting in Amsterdam, the CID Board put Barbara Distel, who celebrated her 70th bithday in July 2013 in the spotlight. Her Birthday was celebrated by awarding her the General André-Delpech price.
"You don't need to be a student of Nazi crimes to recognise, oppose and condemn the same behaviour as such in our own times."
Speech by Ernst GRUBE
Vice-Chairman of the Dachau Camp Association
"How did it come so far in Germany that people because of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs or sexual orientation were deprived of their human dignity and the right to live, and the vast majority of Germans did not take action against it, or at least allowed it to happen?"
