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Biographical Short Films and Introductory Films
Five biographical short films depict the exemplary life stories of former forced laborers. Two background films give information on forced labor and compensation as well as on the project and interview collection. All films are available in the educational materials "Video Testimonies for School Education" on video DVD and learning software.
The films have been created by the oral history experts and filmmakers Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz in consultation with Cord Pagenstecher of the project team.
Reinhard Florian. Verfolgung und Sklavenarbeit eines deutschen Sinto (A German Sinto's Persecution and Slave Labor)
A Film by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz (25 minutes, German). Biographical information and map »
Helena Bohle-Szacki. Eine deutsch-jüdische Polin in KZ und Emigration (A German-Jewish Pole in KZ and Emigration)
A Film by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz (25 minutes, Polish/German). Biographical information and map »
Claudio Sommaruga. Zwangsarbeit und Verweigerung eines italienischen Militärinternierten (Forced Labor and Refusal of an Italian Military Internee)
A Film by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz (25 minutes, Italian/German). Biographical information and map »
Sinaida Baschlai. Eine ukrainische "Ostarbeiterin" in Haushalt und Rüstungsindustrie (A Ukrainian "Ostarbeiterin" in Household and War Industry)
A Film by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz (25 minutes, Russian/German). Biographical information and map »
Victor Laville. Ein französischer Zwangsarbeiter in Bayern (A French Forced Laborer in Bavaria)
A Film by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz (25 minutes, French/German). Biographical Information and map »
Zwangsarbeit und Entschädigung (Forced Labor and Compensation)
A Film by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz (20 minutes, German).
Photo: "Ostarbeiterinnen" in Berlin-Wilhelmshagen transit camp. Nazi propaganda photo by Gerhard Gronefeld, 1942 (DHM)
Das Interview-Archiv "Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945" (The Interview Archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945")
A Film by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz (26 minutes, German)
Photo: The Macedonian Rom Shain A. in the interview, 2005
News
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.
