Waylon’s Look Back at Dachau Tour for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

For many countries, January 27th marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was three years ago this week I had the opportunity to visit the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Below are a handful of images I captured from this nightmarish place.

While touring Europe and visiting Dachau in 2011, I was in the company of several members of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra. Dachau was one of our many stops. For the record, I make no claims to being a professional, or for that matter, even an amateur photographer. I am simply a guy with a camera.

The gatehouse at Dachau.

The barracks at Dachau were dismantled. However, two replicas were built on the site of the first two original buildings. At the time Dachau was occupied, the trees you see in this photo were freshly planted seedlings.

A reconstructed representation of one of the barracks.

The gas chamber and crematorium.

View from inside the gas chamber.

The last thing some of the prisoners ever saw.

The outside view of where the gas pellets were dropped.

The crematorium.

A photo of the same room from 1945.

The grave of thousands of unknowns.

A memorial to those who suffered.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 on November 1st, 2005.