Under the title “Names instead of numbers”, new biographies are added every year to the “Official remembrance book for the prisoners of Dachau concentration camp”. When presenting this year’s remembrance book, the story of the life of Father Konrad Just (1902-1964), a Cistercian monk of Wilhering Abbey in Upper Austria and a parish priest in Gramastetten, was added to this year’s list. The Abbot of Wilhering Abbey, Reinhold Dessl, was at the presentation in the weekend and told the story of the monk’s life, as reported today in a press release. The presentation took place in the Carmelite Church, where Dachau concentration camp used to stand. Father Just, who preached against national socialism, spent seven years in the concentration camps of Dachau, in the suburbs of Munich, and Buchenwald. Just after the end of the war, in 1945, he wrote his memories of the terrible experience he had had in the camps. The Cistercian monk’s memories are a document of the horrors as well as a document of the experience of God’s closeness amidst all the terror. The priest decried the false Nazi leadership with the words: “Authority should only be obeyed insofar as it orders nothing sinful”. According to Abbot Dessl, his report reveals upsetting details of life in the concentration camps in all its dreadfulness, and in particular it provides information about the fate of priests in Dachau and Buchenwald lagers. The book “My experiences in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald” by Konrad Just is available at Wilhering Abbey.