Glass Urn with Earth from the Concentration Camps Dachau and Bergen-Belsen

Glass urn with earth from the concentration camps Dachau and Bergen-Belsen. On the occasion of an International Meeting of concentration camp prisoners, among them 50 priests, these handed over to the Prior of the Benedictine monastery a chalice with earth from the concentration camps Dachau and Bergen-Belsen on 15 May 1968. Already in 1959 work had begun in Mariazell to erect a memorial, warning and peace monument of the nations. The beginning was made on 20 September 1959 with an urn containing earth from Hiroshima, which was placed before the altar of grace. In the course of the years, further urns with earth were to be placed in an urn garden, thus remembering more than 40 million victims who died during the World War.