Over a million visitors to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial 2025!

Over a million visitors to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial 2025!

The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial continues to attract numerous visitors and will have exceeded the mark of over a million guests in 2025. Specifically, 1,013,203 people visited the memorial, which corresponds to an average of almost 2,800 visitors per day, as reported by the [Jüdische Allgemeine](https://www.juedische- Allgemeine.de/politik/2025-mehr-als-eine-million-werbunger-in-kz-gedenkstaette/). This impressive number is the result of an anonymized visitor count that began in October 2024. Previously, visitor numbers were based on projections.

Residents and tourists also took part in over 1,300 public tours in 2025. What is particularly noteworthy is that around 3,000 school classes and groups took part in guided tours and seminars. Another interesting point: 160,000 people used the audio guide, which is available in 18 different languages. The memorial obviously enjoys great international interest, as Dr. Gabriele Hammermann, the director of the concentration camp memorial, emphasizes.

Visitor study is gaining momentum

From spring 2026, a comprehensive visitor study will be carried out, which aims to find out more about the structure of the audience, the visiting conditions and the assessments of various target groups. The study, led by the company Kulturevaluation Wegner, will include written surveys in which visitors will be asked for their opinions at different times. Specially adapted questions are also addressed to school classes and their teachers in order to meet the needs of these special target groups.

With this initiative, the concentration camp memorial not only wants to gain insights into the flow of visitors, but also to bring relevant aspects of remembrance and education to the fore. This attention to the history and lessons of Dachau – one of the first Nazi concentration camps – seems more necessary than ever.

A look beyond the borders

In addition to Dachau, the Wöbbelin memorial is also important, commemorating the victims of the Hitler regime. More than 5,000 people, many of them of Jewish origin, were held there, in most cases under catastrophic conditions. Over 1,000 prisoners died from starvation or the consequences of their imprisonment. Since 2005, the memorial with its striking area of ​​black clinker bricks, which is reminiscent of opened wounds, has been used as a place of remembrance. Embedded stones with the names of 783 victims recall the tragedy of this past - an urgent call that should never be forgotten.

Both the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and the Wöbbelin Memorial impressively demonstrate historical responsibility and the need for reappraisal and remembrance. Dealing with this complex history remains important for all of us, because every visitor count and every survey can help keep the memory alive.