Max Mannheimer was an author, painter and survivor of the Holocaust. Except for one brother, he lost his entire family in the Holocaust, including his new wife. For decades, he did not speak about his
Mannheimer speaking about the liberation of Dachau on May 5, 2002
Mannheimer touring Dachau with Vice President Joe Biden in 2015
Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern the Nazi Party's political oppone
U.S. soldiers guarding the main entrance to Dachau just after liberation, 1945
Aerial photo of the Dachau complex with the actual concentration camp on the left
The camp commander gives a speech to prisoners about to be released as part of a pardoning action near Christmas 1933.