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.
News from Mar 25, 2013
SA-Prison Papestraße
Since March 2013: memorial to the early Nazi terror in the basement of the former barracks in Berlin Südkreuz
http://www.gedenkstaette-papestrasse.de/
Memorial Site "foreigners hospital Mahlow"
21/04/2013: Opening of the circular path with information boards at the location of the "Eastern workers" Hospital of Berlin
http://www.gedenkort-mahlow.de/
The Ravensbrück Memorial
21.4.2013: Opening of the new permanent exhibition on the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp
http://www.ravensbrueck.de/
German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
24.4.2013: Opening of the new permanent exhibition at the site of the German surrender in 1945
http://www.museum-karlshorst.de/en.html
Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center Berlin-Schöneweide
7.5.2013: Opening of the permanent exhibition in the last remaining slave labor camp in Berlin
http://www.topographie.de/dz-ns-zwangsarbeit/
Forced Labor. The Testimony App by Berlin History Workshop
From mid-May on: Five tours through Berlin with the smartphone
http://www.berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de/app.html
The two latter projects involve among others interviews from the archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945".