List of prisoners of Dachau

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This is a fragmentary list of people who were imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp.

Clergy[]

Main article: Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp
Gas chamber (2016)

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.

  • Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, imprisoned in Dachau from September to December 1944
  • a number of the Polish 108 Martyrs of World War II:
  • Father Jean Bernard (1907–1994), Roman Catholic priest from Luxembourg who was imprisoned from May 1941 to August 1942. He wrote the book Pfarrerblock 25487 about his experiences in Dachau
  • Blessed Titus Brandsma, Dutch Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy, died 26 July 1942
  • Norbert Čapek (1870–1942) founder of the Unitarian Church in the Czech Republic
  • Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski, Polish Roman Catholic priest, died 23 February 1945
  • August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest, he protected the rights of the German Catholics and the maltreatment of Polish forced labourers
  • Hilary Paweł Januszewski
  • Ignacy Jeż later a Catholic Bishop
  • Joseph Kentenich, founder of the Schoenstatt Movement, spent three and a half years in Dachau
  • Bishop Jan Maria Michał Kowalski, the first Minister Generalis (Minister General) of the order of the Mariavites. He perished on 18 May 1942, in a gas chamber in Schloss Hartheim.
  • Adam Kozlowiecki, later a Polish Cardinal
  • Max Lackmann, Lutheran pastor and founder of League for Evangelical-Catholic Reunion.
  • Blessed Karl Leisner, in Dachau since 14 December 1941, liberated 4 May 1945, but died on 12 August from tuberculosis contracted in the camp
  • Josef Lenzel, German Roman Catholic priest, helped the Polish forced labourers
  • Bernhard Lichtenberg – German Roman Catholic priest, was sent to Dachau but died on his way there in 1943
  • Martin Niemöller, imprisoned in 1941, liberated 4 May 1945
  • Nikolai Velimirović, bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church and an influential theological writer, venerated as saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  • Engelmar Unzeitig (1911–1945) He was a professed member of the Mariannhill Missionaries. The Gestapo arrested Unzeitig on 21 April 1941 for defending Jews in his sermons[1] and sent him to the Dachau concentration camp without a trial on 8 June 1941. In the autumn of 1944 he volunteered to help in catering to victims of typhoid but he soon contracted the disease himself.[2] Unzeitig died of the disease on 2 March 1945 and was cremated. He became known as the "Angel of Dachau".
  • Lawrence Wnuk
  • Nanne Zwiep, Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Enschede, spoke out from the pulpit against Nazis and their treatment of Dutch Citizens and anti-Semitism, arrested 20 April 1942, died in Dachau of exhaustion and malnutrition 24 November 1942

More than two dozen members of the Religious Society of Friends (known as Quakers) were interned at Dachau. They may or may not have been considered clergy by the Nazis, as all Quakers perform services which in other Protestant denominations are considered the province of clergy. Over a dozen of them were murdered there.

  • Titus Brandsma, Dutch priest, philosopher and former rector of Nijmegen University

Communists[]

Jews[]

Politicians[]

A memorial at the camp with Never again written in several languages

Resistance fighters and foreign agents[]

Inayat Khan's memorial plaque at the Dachau Memorial Hall
  • Yolande Beekman, Special Operations Executive agent, murdered 13 September 1944
  • Georges Charpak, who in 1992 received the Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Madeleine Damerment, Special Operations Executive agent, murdered 13 September 1944
  • Charles Delestraint, French general and leader of French resistance; executed by Gestapo in 1945
  • Johann Georg Elser, who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1939, murdered 9 April 1945
  • Arthur Haulot
  • Suzy van Hall, Dutch dancer, member of the Dutch Resistance; liberated in 1945
  • Noor Inayat Khan GC, Special Operations Executive agent of Indian origin, served as a clandestine radio operator in Paris, murdered 13 September 1944 when she and her SOE colleagues were shot in the back of the head
  • George Maduro, Dutch law student and cavalry officer posthumously awarded the medal of Knight 4th-class of the Military Order of William.
  • Kurt Nehrling, murdered in 1943
  • Eliane Plewman, Special Operations Executive agent, murdered 13 September 1944
  • Enzo Sereni, Special Operations Executive agent, Jewish, son of King Victor Emmanuele's personal physician. Parachuted into Nazi-occupied Italy, captured by the Germans and executed in November 1944. Kibbutz Netzer Sereni in Israel is named after him.
  • Jean ("Johnny") Voste, the one documented black prisoner, was a Belgian resistance fighter from the Belgian Congo; he was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage and was one of the survivors of Dachau[5][6][7]

Royalty[]

Scientists[]

The commemorative mass grave dedicated to the unknown dead at Dachau

Among many others, 183 professors and lower university staff from Kraków universities, arrested on 6 November 1939 during Sonderaktion Krakau.

Writers[]

Military[]

Others[]

References[]

  1. ^ Fischel, J.; Ortmann, S.M. (2004). The Holocaust and Its Religious Impact: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography. Praeger. p. 101. ISBN 9780313309502. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Fr. Engelmar Unzeitig CMM (1911–1945)". Mariannhill Mission Society. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Hans Beimler". spartacus-educational.com. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  4. ^ "SPÖ icon Olah dies aged 99". Wiener Zeitung.at. 4 September 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  5. ^ "The Only Black Prisoner at Dachau Prepares Food With Another Survivor". Jewish Virtual Library. May 1945. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  6. ^ "Photograph: "Two survivors prepare food outside the barracks. The man on the right, presumably, is Jean (Johnny) Voste, born in Belgian Congo, who was the only black prisoner in Dachau. Dachau, Germany, May 1945."". US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Blacks During the Holocaust". Holocaust Encyclopedia. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
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