Category: Forced Labour
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Out Now | Karya 1943. Forced Labour and Holocaust – The Catalogue for the German-Greek Travelling Exhibition
With the publication of the exhibition catalogue Karya 1943. Forced Labour and Holocaust in German and English, a publication is now available that documents a multi-year German-Greek collaborative project on the reappraisal of a long-forgotten chapter of the Holocaust and places it in its historical context. This contribution presents the catalogue and contextualises it through…
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NGHM asks | Where can memorial sites for Displaced Persons actually be found in Germany?
Why this question? After liberation in May 1945, between 6.5 and 11 million “Displaced Persons” (DPs) were located in the territory of the western occupation zones of Germany. This category included former forced labourers, concentration camp prisoners, prisoners of war, as well as other persons uprooted by the war and Nazi persecution. Jewish survivors of…