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Conference "Forced Labor" in Moscow
11/07/2011
On November 14 and 15, 2011, German Historical Institute Moscow organized the international conference "Forced Labor for the Reich 1941–1945. Practice and Memory in German and Russian perspectives". Our team member Cord Pagenstecher discussed new research questions.
The International Conference "Zwangsarbeit für das Reich 1941–1945. Praxis und Erinnerung in deutschen und russischen Perspektiven" was taking place on november 14 and 15, 2011 in the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War. It was organized by the German Historical Institute in cooperation with the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" and the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
During a round table on forced labor as object of research, new issues and perspectives were being discussed also with regard to the online archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945".
The conference rounded off the international traveling exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers and the War". The exhibition was curated by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, initiated and sponsored by the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future". Along with numerous pictures and documents from different archives the exhibition also shows interview excerpts with contemporary witnesses from the Online Archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945".
The first venue of the comprehensive traveling exhibition was the Jewish Museum Berlin (September 2010 until January 2011). A (German language) short film shows how the interviews are being used in the exhibition.
Other museums and memorials are making use of interviews from the online archive, too.
Since the 70th anniversary of the German attack on the Soviet Union, the online archive shows a video with former soviet forced laborers' memories about June 22, 1941 and its consequences.
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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.
