Plan your visit
How to find us
Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit
Britzer Straße 5 | 12439 Berlin
S Schöneweide (8 min. by foot)
Bus 165 (Doku.-zentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit)
Information: ns-zwangsarbeit(at)topographie.de
Booking a group tour: bildung_ns-zwangsarbeit(at)topographie.de
Opening Hours
Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm
Admission is free.
Special Opening Days: Easter and Whit Monday
Closing days
24 and 31 December
Next public guided tours
Saturdays, 3 pm: permanent exhibition and "Barrack 13" (2h) (German)
Sundays, 3 pm: site and "Baracke 13" (1h) (German)
Sundays, 4 pm: permanent exhibition and "Barrack 13" (2h) (English)
free of charge, without registration
Guided Tours and Workshops
Guided tours and workshops are free of charge at the Documentation Centre. Guided tours are available in German, English, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian. You can find out about our various offers in advance here.
For enquiries and bookings please contact:
Mirna Campanella
Phone: +49 (0)30 6390 288 27 or -21
bildung_ns-zwangsarbeit(at)topographie.de
Library
Research
The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre collects records relating to Nazi forced labour within what is now the city of Berlin. We do not, as a rule, process enquiries concerning individuals, camps or places of deployment outside Berlin.
Please direct research enquiries regarding individuals or locations to the regional archives, in particular the Arolsen Archives. For independent research into individuals, as well as camps and places of detention outside Berlin, please refer to the research guide on the ‘NS-Zwangsarbeit’ education portal, which is available for download as a PDF in both German and English.
Enquiries relating to Berlin may be sent by email to the following address:
recherche_ns-zwangsarbeit(at)topographie.de
Multimedia-Guides
Our multimedia guides will guide you in German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic - as well as German barrier-free versions (for the blind, visually impaired, in plain language and in German sign language) through the permanent exhibitions, through the camp grounds and into the surrounding area.
If possible please bring your own headphones, due to hygienic reasons.
The guides are available for free in German and English für iOS and Android.
News
Permanent Exhibitions:
Forced Labour in the Daily Round 1938-1945 (de/en)
Between Two Stools. The History of Italian Military Internees 1943-1945 (de/en/it)
Guided Tours in English:
Exhibition and "Barrack 13" Sundays 4 pm
Special Exhibitions:
27 March – 6 September 2026: Hélène Fauriat - From the Restistance to Forced Labour in Schönefeld
The Documentation Centre
Exhibition, archive and learning location
An estimated 26 million people were abducted by the Nazi regime and exploited as forced labourers during the Second World War.
The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre has the task of providing information on the history and dimensions of Nazi forced labour and making the fate of these men, women and children visible. The former accommodation barracks on the site of the only almost completely preserved forced labor camp from the Nazi era now serve as exhibition and event venues.
Visitors will also find an archive, a library, an international youth meeting place and numerous offers of historical-political educational work.
More about us Latest Newsletter Newsletter and Invitation Registration
Education
Guided Tours
The documentation centre offers free guided tours through its exhibitions, as well as district tours, bike tours and workshops. School classes and groups of 8 or more are welcome to book an individual guided tour. Guided tours are available in German, English, Polish, Russian, French, Italian and Serbo-Croatian.
Contact: Mirna Campanella
Tel: +49 30 6390 288 -27 | bildung_ns-zwangsarbeit(at)topographie.de
Workshops
Workshops are currently held in German and English and can be booked individually for school classes and groups.
We will be happy to advise you on our offers.
Contact: Mirna Campanella
Tel.: +49 30 6390 288 -27 | bildung_ns-zwangsarbeit(at)topographie.de
Youth Meetings
Contact: Tanja Vaitulevich
Tel.: +49 30 6390 288 16 | vaitulevich(at)topographie.de
Library
The library of the Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center is a specialised academic library open to the public. The library's stock currently comprises approx. 6,000 media units and over 5,900 journal articles. We hold books in German, English, Italian, Polish, Russian, French and others. The library is a reference library. Copies are sent out within the framework of interlibrary loan.
For research enquiries, please get in touch at bibliothek_ns-zwangsarbeit(at)topographie.de.
library online catalogue research requests
Eyewitness Archive
The digital eyewitness archive
The contemporary witness archive is a digital collection of the Nazi Forced Labout Documentation Centre. It contains audiovisual interviews, letters, photographs and documents of former forced laborers. In their reports, the women and men describe their experiences during National Socialism in the German Reich, how the German population met them and how strongly everyday life was determined by Nazi racial ideology.
Documents and interviews are available in original language, a translation to German is available.
