Dachau Memorial Site Closed May 4th for 80th Anniversary Commemoration
Please note: The Dachau Memorial Site will be closed to the public on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 for a private ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. No tours will be offered that day. Saturday's tour is still available.
WW2 Veteran and US military personnel at Dachau, April 29th 2025
We want to inform our guests and visitors that the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site will be closed to the public on Sunday, May 4th, 2025.
This closure is due to a private commemorative ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau by U.S. forces. Survivors, dignitaries, and invited guests will gather to honor this solemn occasion, and public access will be restricted for the day.
As a result, we will not be able to offer any tours on Sunday, May 4th. We understand this may affect your travel plans, and we appreciate your understanding and respect for this important memorial event.
If you're planning to visit that weekend, please note that our regular tour on Saturday, May 3rd, is still available and running as scheduled. We encourage you to join us then if your schedule allows.
Thank you for your understanding.
Names, not Numbers.
Upon arrival at Dachau men, women and children were given a number which had to be displayed on their uniform at all times. This number was their camp identity, their camp name. It was part of a system of control used by the SS guards to dehumanise and humiliate those they incarcerated at Dachau.
A temporary exhibition at the Dachau Memorial Site focuses on the over two thousand Dutch prisoners who were imprisoned at Dachau between 1941 and 1945. The exhibition was researched and created by school pupils starting in 2010 with guidance from the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam.
The exhibition is quite interactive with a large projection and touchscreen which can be used to search through individual stories and find out what may have happened to each prisoner. Different stations focus on certain prisoners and display incredible items from camp life. It is a powerful exhibition which goes a long way in the effort to remind visitors that behind every number was an individual human being. It is of course doubly impressive when you consider the young age of the researchers!
Projection of names and images