The Dachau camp

Exhibition on the Dachau Nazi concentration camp

To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the death camps, the local branch of the Fédération nationale des déportés et internés résistants et patriotes (FNDIRP), in partnership with the town of Arbois, is putting on an exhibition about the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a symbolic camp since it was the Reich's first state camp.

This 25-panel exhibition, created by the Amicale française du Camp de Concentration de Dachau, is designed as an educational aid to help pass on the memory of the Deportation and the Resistance to Nazism during the Second World War.

Each panel deals with a theme specific to the Dachau Concentration Camp, with text and photos. Most of the panels have a timeline to situate the theme in time.

Aims of the exhibition :

to understand deportation during the Second World War
understand what the Dachau Concentration Camp was
understand that the subject is still relevant today
understand the importance of human values
to pass on the memory of the Deportation and the Resistance and the humanist values of freedom that the deportees never ceased to uphold and defend.

The exhibition enables visitors to grasp and understand the full horror and unimaginability of the deportation, but also to discover and share the human values of resistance and solidarity that enabled the survivors not only to survive in the camp, but also to preserve the little humanity that the totalitarian Nazi system set out to take away from them.