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    The monks, the Dachau survivors and the concert that heralded freedom

    On the anniversary of the camp’s liberation, the forgotten story of escaped prisoners who set up a Jewish hospital in a Bavarian monastery has been championed by one Benedictine monk
    by Rosie Whitehouse Apr 21, 2018 5 minutes
    Patients being treated at the Jewish hospital in the monastery at St Ottilien after the end of the war. Photograph: The Jewish Review

    The monastery of St Ottilien rises above the green Bavarian pastures of southern Germany. It is an unlikely setting for the story of an extraordinary Jewish renaissance in the weeks following the 1945 liberation of Dachau, which is being commemorated this week.

    It is a bright but chilly Saturday afternoon and the large baroque complex is packed with visitors enjoying a drink in the beer garden after a hike in the countryside. As he tucks into a large plate of wiener schnitzel and downs a lager, Father Cyrill, who is presiding over memorial events that will take place in the monastery, expresses his sadness that most of the people who come to St Ottilien have no idea of what took place here.

    Father Cyrill’s day job is running the monastery’s Benedictine publishing house, but in his spare time he

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