The Educational Concept

"The youth is our future and memory is our legacy"
(A former prisoner in the concentration camp in Dachau)

The educational concept persues two main aims:

  • To keep memory of the prisoners from the concentration camp in Dachau vivid
  • To help young people and adults to deal with the history of the National Socialism

The collection of the remembrance sheets grows steadily, thanks to relatives, students, school children, interested adults and people who witnessed the events of that time. They shape the biographies in their own way: they set the main focus, choose the point of view, investigate, interview, write and form the pages.

Particularly young people find here an alternative of the often dry history teaching, overcrowded with "facts, facts, facts" (Marion Gabler, 19 years old). The project makes National Socialism accessible and easier to deal with. Through the Book of Remembrance the school children are engaged in a study with the destiny of one prisoner from their own region on a personal level and can connect this with their own present. In this way the historical, political and social coherence will become more transparent and more understandable.

The Carrier Group responsible for the Book of Remembrance suggests that young people and adults from Germany as well as from foreign countries take active part in this project. We may yet meet the people who witnessed the events back then.

Information

Directions for those who would like to write a biography:

  • The biography has to deal with a former prisoner from the concentration camp in Dachau.
  • The volume amount to max. four A3 pages.
  • The language of biography is free of choice.
  • The signature of the author and if possible from the former prisoner or a relative aswell as authorisation.
  • Everything else can be formed as pleased.
  • After the completion of the sheets these will be sent to an employee of the project to verify the historical correctness of the sheets.

Detailed information and tips are available from the supervisor of the project, Sabine Gerhardus. All requests to the project can be put in English, German and Russian.