The ARD news made the following report on the 30 April commemoration.

Image: KZGedenkstätte Dachau Guido Hassel und Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten

Dominique Boueilh

President of the Comité International de Dachau

It is with great honor that I address you all as the new President of the Cid. For many years I have been involved in the International Dachau Committee and in the annual commemorations of the liberation of the camp. However, I do not hide the fact that I am overwhelmed by great emotion at this particular moment.

Allow me to share an intimate thought about my father, Didier Boueilh.
Eighteen years old, the exact age of his great-grandson Enzo here present, he arrived at the Dachau camp on July 5, 1944, aboard the sinister convoy 7909, known as the "Train of Death", and which he survived by a miracle. He was liberated at dawn on April 29, 1945 by the American soldiers, to whom he was to dedicate his life-long gratitude.

For the end of the suffering of thousands of prisoners, for this newfound freedom, we must all be honored today by the presence among us of liberators, torn from their youth to liberate from the Nazi invader a Europe that was far from them.

Leitenberg

 Image CID Cristina Cristobal

- 17.30

Laying of the wreath at the Leitenberg.

29-4-2023

Am Appelplatz

- 17.00

Ceremony at the foot of the flame monument
- Wreath laying by the President of the CID and the families.

Opening Exhibition "Prelude to Terror"

90 years ago, on March 22, 1933, the Nazi regime brought the first prisoners to the newly established concentration camp in Dachau, less than two months after the National Socialists came to power.

Dachau March 22, 2023

"we observe the persistence or return of autocracies, which are careful not to be assimilated to dictatorships. They take care to silence their opponents, they manipulate opinion, they constantly revisit history and cultivate the clash of cultures,"

Speech by Dominique BoueilhPresident of the International Dachau Committee

Invitation to the anniversary

COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONIES
28-29 and 30 April 2023

We remember what has happened

out of respect for the victims

and for the future of our children.

Stanislav Zámečník Study Prize of the Comité International de Dachau

The Comité International de Dachau (CID) will again award the Stanislav Zámečník Study Prize in 2023. The CID's mission is to preserve the memory of the crimes committed in the Dachau concentration camp; it is an international association and consists of the organisations of former Dachau concentration camp inmates from 25 countries and their families. The Comité International de Dachau endows the study prize in memory of the victims of the National Socialist concentration and extermination camps, especially Dachau Concentration Camp. The prize has been awarded every two years since 2017; 6,000 euros are available for it.

Stanislav Zámečník (1922-2011) was a Czech survivor of Dachau concentration camp and historian. During his imprisonment in Dachau from 1941 to 1944, he was involved in activities of the camp's internal resistance. After liberation and his training as a historian, he worked on the first exhibition of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial, which opened in 1965. He was banned from working after the suppression of the Prague Spring because of his support for it. It was not until 1989 that he was able to work unhindered as a scientist again. Zámečník published important articles in the "Dachauer Heften". In 2002, his monograph "Das war Dachau" (That was Dachau), which is still authoritative today, was published; it is a standard work and has been translated into many languages. As a member of the scientific advisory board, he exerted a formative influence on the redesign of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial.

Dominique Boueilh, new President of the International Dachau Committee (CID)

After his election on 19 November 2022 as the future president of the CID, Dominique Boueilh took up his duties as president on 25 February 2023. He succeeds General Jean-Michel Thomas, whose essential action within the CID during his two mandates was highly recognised and praised.

The Dachau International Committee Study Prize award

Stanislav Zámečník Prize 2022 for Markus Wegewitz

" Markus Wegewitz's study sheds light on the history of antifascism, which is closely intertwined with the course set by the extreme 20th century. Antifascism is a dispositive of experience, a way of life and a political position at the same time. The study, which was written as a dissertation at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, offers a historical longitudinal section from the emergence of organised antifascism after the end of the First World War to the global 1960s. In the process, central ideas, forms of organisation, patterns of memory and components of political culture are elaborated."