Dachau concentration camp

The Dachau concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp near the city of Dachau, north of Munich, in southern Germany.

Famous prisoners of Dachau

Jews

• Bruno Bettelheim, imprisoned in 1938, freed in 1939; left Germany
• Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria
• David Ludwig Bloch, painter, arrested in November 1938 in connection with Kristallnacht

Anti-nazi resistance fighters

• Georg Elser, died April 9, 1945
• Arthur Haulot
• Georges Charpak, who in 1992 received the Nobel Prize in Physics

Religious ministers

Dachau had a special "priest block". Of the 2720 priests (among them 2579 catholic) held in Dachau, 1034 did not survive the camp. The majority were Polish (1780), of whom 868 died in Dachau.

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• Jean Bernard (1907-1994), Catholic priest from Luxembourg who was imprisoned from May 1941 to August 1942. Father Bernard wrote the compelling book "Pfarrerblock 25487" about his experiences in Dachau. The movie "The Ninth Day" by Volker Schlöndorff is based on his diary.
• Anton Fränznick, in Dachau since 1942, died January 27, 1944
• Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski Catholic priest, died February 23, 1945
• Blessed Stefan Grelewski, Catholic priest, prisoner No. 25281, starved to death in Dachau on May 9, 1941
• Adam Kozlowiecki, Polish Cardinal
• Karl Leisner, in Dachau since December 14, 1941, freed May 4, 1945, but died on August 12 from the tuberculosis contracted in the camp
• Martin Niemöller, imprisoned in 1941, freed May 4, 1945
• Hermann Scheipers
• Richard Schneider, in Dachau since November 22, 1940, freed March 29, 1945
• Aloys Scholze, died September 1, 1942
• Joseph Kentenich, founder of the Schoenstatt Movement, spent three and a half years in Dachau.

Politicians

• Leopold Figl, arrested 1938, released May 8, 1943
• Alois Hundhammer, arrested June 21, 1933, freed July 6, 1933
• Kurt Schumacher, in Dachau since July 1935, sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1939, returned to Dachau in 1940, released due to extreme illness March 16, 1943
• Stefan Starzy?ski, the President of Warsaw, probably murdered in Dachau in 1943

Communists

• Alfred Andersch, held 6 months in 1933
• Emil Carlebach (Jewish), in Dachau since 1937, sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938
• Nikolaos Zachariadis (Greek), from November 1941 to May 1945
• Oskar Müller, in Dachau since 1939, freed 1945

Writers

• Tadeusz Borowski, writer, survived, but committed suicide in 1951
• Stanis?aw Grzesiuk, Polish writer, poet and singer, Varsavianist, in Dachau since April 4, 1940, later transferred to Mauthausen-Gusen complex
• Gustaw Morcinek, Polish Silesian writer
• Jura Soyfer, in Dachau 6 months in 1938, transferred to Buchenwald