Looking back. Looking ahead. 2020-2025

SURVIVORS AND LIBERATORS | SPEECHES   145 Survivors and Liberators Video message from 29 April 2021, ©Dachau Memorial To all humanity: 75 years of freedom! Never forget the slavery and suffering that people endured   at the hands of nationalism. The greatest madness claimed the lives of 80 million people. We want peace, freedom, good health and happy families   for all nations of the world. Fight against the rising threat of the far right! Erich Richard Finsches 75th anniversary  of the liberation of Dachau  29 April 2020 Erich Richard Finsches (born in 1927) comes from a Jewish family in Vienna. His entire childhood was spent running from the Nazis. In 1944, he was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Later that year, he was sent to Mühldorf am Inn. He survived the Mühldorf and Kaufering subcamps of Dachau. Today, he lives in Vienna, Austria.