Book of Remembrance for the Prisoners of Dachau
Concentration Camp - an International Project
The
Book of Remembrance is a growing and living token of remembering the former
prisoners of Dachau Concentration Camp and its subsidiary camps. Those
interested may have a look at the work in the Protestant Church of
Reconciliation on Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. It comprises
various documents for each prisoner, collated to form a biography on their
lives and personalities.The Ukraine Project: Meeting 2007
At least 25,000 citizens of the former Soviet Union, among them to a large extent Ukrainians, were the second largest national group detained in Dachau Concentration Camp. Establishing contact with eastern European Holocaust survivors was first made possible after the political changes in 1990 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Thus biographical interviews of survivors of the camp could be carried out in the Ukraine.Young people collected information and wrote the biographies in the Ukraine, and in March 2007 they invited the survivors to Dachau to witness the presentation of their biographies and participate in a celebration of the success of the project.
The project is supported by the fund for reconciliation of RENOVABIS, the foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" and the town of Dachau.
International Travelling Exhibition "Names Instead of Numbers"
Polish Jews, German Communists and Social Democrats, Austrian Roma, Dutch and French resistance fighters, young Ukrainians sent to Germany as forced laborers who were later caught by the Gestapo while trying to escape... the persecution and terror of the SS in Dachau concentration camp was experience by people of various ethnicities and backgrounds. Following the liberation of the camp, as former prisoners returned to their homes, the memories of the horrors and hardships of their time in Dachau continued to shape the lives of the survivors. The current collection of biographies in the Dachau Remembrance Book give readers a glimpse into the lives of some of these people.In 2008 selected entries from the Remembrance Book were compiled and shown in an international traveling exhibition, "Names Instead of Numbers." The exhibition was translated into six languages, and was shown in Germany, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and the Ukraine. The project was funded by the European Union (Europe for its citizens - "Active European Remembrance").
