Bavarian Memorial Foundation

The Bavarian Memorial Foundation is a foundation with legal capacity under public law. It is accountable for the Dachau and Flossenburg Concentration Camp Memorial Sites. Established by the Bavarian Parliament in 2003, the foundations main duties are: maintaining and managing the historical sites enabling visits to the historical authentic places, their exhibitions and special exhibitions keeping the memory of the victims suffering alive creating environments of learning for future generations supporting the historical and political education in schools, youth centres and other educational institutions collecting, recording and archiving the accounts from victims, historical objects and artefacts as well as relevant literature researching and making documents accessible to the public publications on outcomes of research co-operations with other institutions and organisations with similar objectives within Germany and abroad Further major tasks of the foundation are the mai...