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Interviews about Nazi Forced Labor - The Collection
The digital archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945” contains interviews with 590 survivors of Nazi forced labor.
590 members of various groups targeted for persecution recount their memories in life story interviews in 25 different languages. The interviews were conducted in 2005-2006. The archive contains 32 subsets compiled from various interview projects in 26 countries under the direction of the FernUniversität in Hagen – University of Hagen.
A selection of biographies depicts the diversity of the lives and experiences of the witnesses in the archive. For reasons of privacy, registration for the use of the archives and acceptance of the Terms of Use are required.
A fulltext search in the interview-transcripts is available for registered users. By categories such as "group", "deployment area" or "language", the interviews can be filtered. An interactive map enables users to search for sites of biographical relevance to the interviewees.
Introductory Film:
A video clip about the project "Forced labor 1939-1945" is only available in German. Click here »
News
New Places of Remembrance and Exhibitions
This spring - 80 years after the handover of power to the Nazis and 67 years after the liberation - new projects of rememberance in Berlin offer information also on the history of forced labor.
Exhibition "Forced Labor" in Warsaw
From January 9 until March 8, 2013, the international exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers and the war" is on display in the Royal Palace of Warsaw.
Obituary Claudio Sommaruga
On November 4, 2012, our interview partner Claudio Sommaruga died at the age of 92.
