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Compensation and Remembrance
The history of forced labor shall be remembered even after the long-overdue financial compensation.
Payment Notification for the first compensation payment
Interactive Map Compensation (CeDiS / FUB, click to open in new window, German)
It took decades for governments and companies to address the issue of compensation for the former forced laborers. It was not until the end of the 1990s, compelled by political pressure from the USA, that the state- and private industry-funded “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” Foundation was established.
The victims who had to perform forced labor each received a one-time payment of between 500 and 7,700 Euros, depending on the severity of the victim’s fate. Prisoners of war were not eligible for benefits. More details are shown in the German-language Interactive Map Compensation that was prepared for the educational material.
The compensation effort was not, however, supposed to be regarded as a moral closure. Even after the payments were concluded in 2007, the remembrance of Nazi forced labor shall continue to be kept alive for future generations. Therefore, the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” has initiated the collection of the life stories of former forced laborers.
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.
