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Life Story Interviews in Museums
Interviews from the archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History" are used in various exhibitions in museums and memorial sites.
Surviving forced laborers have been given a chance to speak, not only in education and research, but increasingly also in historical museums and exhibitions where excerpts from the video and audio interviews facilitate the visitors' personal approach to the history of forced labor.
Police Exhibition
Exhibition "Order and Annihilation – The Police and the Nazi Regime": Interview excerpts on Nazi forced labor. More»
Source: CeDiS / FUB
German Historical Museum
Multimedia Station "Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History" in the permanent exhibition of the German Historical Museum (since 2009). More»
Source: Archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945"
Commemoration Hall Oberhausen
Interview excerpts at the permanent exhibition of the Gedenkhalle Oberhausen, with a special focus on forced labor in the time of National Socialism in Oberhausen (since 2010). More» (in German)
Source: Gedenkhalle Oberhausen
Traveling Exhibition
Traveling exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers and the War" at the Jewish Museum Berlin (2010-2011) and the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow (2011). More»
Source: CeDiS / FUB
Other Museums and Exhibitions
Other exhibitions have also used materials from the interview archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945"
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"Städtedreieck unterm Hakenkreuz. NS-Zwangsarbeit im ländlichen Raum" (Three-City-Triangle under the Swastika. Nazi Forced Labor in Rural Areas) at the “Hüttenschänke” in Maxhütte-Haidhof (2010). More» (in German)
- "Deutsche und Polen - 1. 9. 39 - Abgründe und Hoffnungen" (Germans and Poles – 1. 9. 39 – Despair and Hope) at the German Historical Museum (2009). More»
- “Im Totaleinsatz. Zwangsarbeit der tschechischen Bevölkerung für das Dritte Reich" (In Totaleinsatz. Forced Labor of the Czech People for the Third Reich) at the Documentation Center of Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin Schöneweide (2008-2009). More» (in German)
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New project day on the Auschwitz Trial
At the second day of "Victims' Voices at the Perpetrators' Site" in the "Topograpy of Terror", students do research on witnesses and perpetrators at Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-65).
Second Edition Educational Material
The educational material about "Forced Labor 1939-1945" ist now available in a second edition. Video DVD, learning software and teachers' book are can be purchased at Federal Agency for Civic Education.
Testifying in Nazi Trials
On december 15, 1961, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem ended with a death sentence. The Jewish Auschwitz survivor and artist Yehuda B. testified against Adolf Eichmann and - two years later - at the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt.
