Max Mannheimer
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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 in 2005
Mannheimer touring Dachau with Vice President Joe Biden in 2015
Dachau concentration camp
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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
Max Mannheimer
…October 1943, Mannheimer and his younger brother, Edgar, were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto to clear rubble. In July 1944, he was sent on a death march to Dachau, arriving on 6 August 1944. After three weeks in quarantine, he was sent to Allach, a Dachau subcamp where he worked at a BMW factory. At the beginning…
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.
Two Dachau crematoria