International Traveling Exhibition

GEDÄCHTNIS BUCH FÜR DIE HÄFTLINGE DES KZ DACHAU

Förderer Sponsoring Body The Exhibition and Remembrance Book are financed by • Dachauer Forum – Remembrance Book Bavarian State Office for Political Education | Bavarian Katholische Erwachsenenbildung e.V. State Chancellery | Bavarian Teachers’ Association | • Evangelische Versöhnungskirche for the Prisoners

Region of Upper Bavaria | Borislav Bjelicic | Diocesan in der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau 2018 December state Current of Dachau Concentration Camp Council of the Archidiocese of Cologne | Archdiocese • Förderverein für Internationale Jugendbegegnung of Cologne | Archdiocese of Munich and Freising | und Gedenkstättenarbeit in Dachau e. V. EU, Europe for Citizens’ Programme – „Active European • Katholische Seelsorge Names Instead Remembrance“ | Protestant-Lutheran Church of Bavaria | an der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau The City of Dachau | House of Bavarian History | • Lagergemeinschaft Dachau e.V. Catholic Endowment Fund | Catholic Regional Council • Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum of Numbers for the Rhein-Sieg-Region | Dept. of Culture, Bavarian Capital, Munich | Dachau Camp Association | District of Dachau | Renovabis, Solidarity Action Viewing of Remembrance Book for Eastern Europe | The City of Heidelberg | Foundation Evangelische Versöhnungskirche of Bavarian Memorial Sites | Stiftung der Sparkasse – in der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau Bildung und Wissenschaft | White Rose Foundation | Römerstraße 87 Exhibition Numerous individual donations D-85221 Dachau Loan Information Phone +49-813113644 www.versoehnungskirche-dachau.de Opening Mon. – Sat. 10 am. – 4 pm. | Sunday 12 pm. – 1 pm.

Award of Competition Contact „Active for Democracy and Tolerance 2008“ Remembrance Book for the Prisoners of Dachau Concentration Camp Dachauer Forum e. V. Ludwig-Ganghofer-Straße 4 D-85221 Dachau Award of Competition Phone +49-8131-996 88-0 „365 Orte im Land der Ideen“ [email protected] www.gedaechtnisbuch.org

Donations Dachauer Forum e.V. Sparkasse Dachau Bürgerkulturpreis 2010 IBAN: DE 68 7005 1540 0380 9352 62 BIC (Swift): BYLADEM1DAH GEDÄCHTNIS Please add »Gedächtnisbuch« BUCH FÜR DIE HÄFTLINGE DES KZ DACHAU Front page of Remembrance Book Page Karl Leisner www.gedaechtnisbuch.org

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International Traveling Exhibition Dachau Remembrance Book “Names Instead of Numbers” The Remembrance Book is an ongoing, extensive Nijmegen, Bordeaux, Vienna, Lublin, Zaporizhia, collection of biographies of former prisoners of Berlin – these are a few of the thousands of the Dachau Concentration Camp. Since 1999, places in Europe, large and small, from which over 250 biographies have been written in a people were deported to Dachau Concentration variety of languages. School and university stu- Camp between 1933 – 1945. The International dents, adults and relatives of former prisoners Traveling Exhibition “Names Instead of Numbers” participate in the project in order to remember shows a selection of 22 biographies from the the lives of individual prisoners of Dachau and Dachau Remembrance Book, in which the to actively research the history of National So- individual life stories of former prisoners are cialism. With the help of the project supervisor, described, as well as background information they establish contact with Dachau survivors or about the Remembrance Book project and the their relatives and conduct interviews with them. history of the Dachau Concentration Camp. They perform historical and archival research In the accompanying 88 page brochure “Names and compose a biography based on a variety of Instead of Numbers” all 22 biographies can be sources. The biographies are written entirely by found. the individual project participants and include National University The International Traveling Exhibition „Names pictures and original documents. for Architecture Information about loaning and Design, the traveling exhibiton Instead of Numbers” is comprised of 25 banners Kiev 2009 (80 cm x 210 cm). Project Participation The exhibition „Names Instead of Numbers“ The exhibition was under the patronship of All biographies in the Dachau Remembrance and the accompanying brochure is available Dr. h.c. Max Mannheimer (1920 – 2016), survivor Book are researched, written and arranged by for loan in the German, Dutch, French, Polish, of Auschwitz and Dachau Concentration Camps voluntary participants. Through their commit- English and Ukrainian languages. and President of the Dachau Camp Association. ment they make it possible to bring back to life Minimal transport and insurance costs exist for the history of a previously persecuted individual, the loan. A fee of 300 euros is – where possible – leaving traces of life to protect against forgetting. requested for the loan of the exhibition. A do- Through relatively independent research the nation can also support the project. A brochure, participants collect information about the fate accompanying the exhibition is also available of an individual, their family and friends, their in every language. It has 88 pages and costs 5 dreams... For this no previous historical know- euros, which helps to cover our expenses. ledge is necessary, it is however expected that Further information is available by email from: participants are prepared to get involved in the [email protected] working ways of the project, whilst also being conscious of responsibility and committed. The research is conducted alongside seminar offers Das Ehepaar Schild vor Erwin Schilds Banner and carried out within the framework of a work in der Carleton-University in Ottawa 2012 group.