The ARD news made the following report on the 5 Mai commemoration.
Speech by the president of the CID on 5 May
Anna Stolz, Bavarian Minister for Education and Culture
Maria Bering, Head of the Department of Remembrance at the Federal Government's Delegate for Culture and the Media
Mr Karl Freller, Director of the Bavarian Memorial Foundation
Dr Gabriele Hammermann, Director of the Dachau Memorial
Dear former deportees
Descendants of deportees
Ladies and Gentlemen, Representatives of Public Bodies, Religious Bodies and Associations
Dear members of the public
The years 2024 and 2025 are synonymous for us, those involved in remembrance, with important milestones. On 6 June, on the beaches of Normandy, we will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings, which opened the gates to the liberation of Europe from the yoke of the Nazi invaders. On 29 April 2025, we will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau camp by the American army.
We remember what has happened out of respect for the victims and for the future of our children.
Invitation & program 2024
International Youth Meeting 2024
CID supports this inspiring activity, sometimes also in practical therms
The Max Mannheimer Scholarship
In recognition of the contributions of Max Mannheimer (1920 – 1916) for the International Youth Meeting Dachau and with the aim of keeping his legacy alive, the Max Mannheimer Scholarship has been constitued in 2018 on the initiative of the district of Dachau. Every year, up to three young people from Germany and abroad who do not have sufficient financial means are given the opportunity to attend IYM Dachau free of charge. The scholarship is organized by the IYM Dachau organizations and is under the patronage of the District Administrator Stefan Löwl.
Zámečník Prize of the Year 2023 goes to Mr Joscha Döpp
The CID jury has awarded the Stanislav Zámečník Prize of the Year 2023 to Mr Joscha Döpp for his master's thesis in history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main with the title:
Charged with mass murder in Ukraine.
The federal German investigations against the
SS-Hauptsturmführer Kuno Callsen and the
the Darmstadt Einsatzgruppen Trial(1960-1968)
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.