Memorial service held in Dachau concentration camp

Dachau, Germany, March 15, 2018

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On March 9, Archbishop Tikhon of Podolsk, administrator of the Diocese of Berlin and Germany, visited the former Dachau concentration camp, where he served a panikhida memorial service for those who were slaughtered there, reports the site of the Berlin Diocese.

The prayers for the departed were read in the Orthodox Chapel of the Resurrection located on the territory of the former concentration camp. Vladyka Tikhon was assisted by Igumen Maxim (Schmidt), representative of the Southern Deanery, and Archpriest Nikolai Zabelich, rector of the Resurrection parish in the cities of Dachau and Munich.

Abp. Tikhon then visited the Hebertshausen Range, 1.2 miles from Dachau, which served as a place of mass executions of prisoners of war during the existence of the concentration camp. Memory eternal was sung for all the prisoners “brutally slain on the site.”

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The Chapel of the Resurrection at Dachau was built by in 1994 in memory of those who died there and in other concentration camps of the Third Reich. The church was designed in the style of the wooden tent-shaped churches of the Russian north, embodying their characteristic features and beauty. The chapel was assembled in the Vladimir Province of Russia by a group of Russian soldiers who were leaving the territory of Germany at that time.

The chapel was consecrated on April 29, 1995, and was visited by His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II on November 20 of the same year. The first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the chapel on September 8, 1996, and services have been held on a regular basis there since then. The chapel contains a unique icon of the Savior leading numerous prisoners from Dachau. The church also includes an icon of St. Nikolai (Velimirovich) who was a prisoner at Dachau from September 1944 to February 1945.

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3/15/2018

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