Commemorative Sites

On April 28, 1945, the city hall was occupied by citizens of Dachau and concentration camp prisoners in the so-called Dachau Uprising. SS troops overpowered the insurgents. The former "Square of the Lindentree" was renamed in the year 1946 to "Resistance Square" (Widerstandsplatz) to commemorate the Dachau Uprising and honor those who gave their lives.

On April 28, 1945, Dachau concentration camp prisoners and Dachau citizens occupied the town hall. The uprising was crushed by SS units.

A commemorative plaque for the victims of the Dachau Uprising is located closeby in front of the bank (Sparkasse).

The displacement and murder of the Dachau Jews

Dachau commemorates the expulsion and murder of its Jewish citizens with two bronze plaques at the town hall. In connection with the anti-Semitic progroms on November 9, 1938, the last Dachau Jews had been expelled from their hometown.

6,887 prisoners were evacuated from the Dachau Concentration Camp and forced to march south on April 26, 1945. Hubertus von Pilgrim created a bronze sculpture to commemorate the victims of this so-called death march. The sculpture was erected in Dachau, where the march began, and in other towns, through which the SS forced the prisoners.

After World War II, 1268 concentration camp prisoners, who died after the liberation of the camp, were laid to rest here. The Jewish prisoners who died during the death march from the Flossenbürg concentration camp to Dachau are also buried here.

In remembrance to them, a four-meter-high monument was erected at the memorial burial ground. There is also a memorial for the Austrian victims of the Dachau Concentration Camp, and a commemorative stone for the victims of the Dachau uprising (the latter can be found among a row of tombstones near the main entrance).

Leitenberg hill, used as a mass grave by the SS, is the final resting place of 7,609 prisoners of the concentration camp.

All of the mass graves were exhumed by a French association searching for war victims during 1955-1959. Identified victims were transferred to their homelands, while the other bodies were buried again on the Leitenberg hill.

The Memorial Cemetery was consecrated in 1949 and the Memorial Hall was completed in 1951. The “Regina Pacis” chapel was erected in 1963 to commemorate all the Italians who died in the concentration camps. In 1999 a memorial for the Polish victims was set up as well.

The memorial commemorates the over 4000 Sovjet prisoners of war, who were executed here in 1941 and 1942 by members of Dachau's camp SS.
An Exhibition depicts the historical context of the crime, biographies of the victims and the post-war history of the memorial.  
An artistic installation referring to the former site of crime, displays the names of the victims known so far.