The exhibition is designed as a travelling exhibition for 100 m² and is trilingual (German, Greek and English as a booklet).

Contact: Iris Hax
Tel: 030 6390 288 13

The album

The exhibition is based on the photo collection of a German engineer who was stationed in Greece during the Second World War and carried out construction projects for the Wehrmacht. The album contains photographs of Jewish forced labourers. Andreas Assael, son of a Jewish survivor from Thessaloniki, discovered these unique photos at a flea market in Munich and researched their history.

The exhibition

This multimedia and participatory exhibition shows these historical photos for the first time in the context of the German occupation and the Holocaust. In 1943, Jewish forced labourers had to remove a rock for a passing track at the Karya railway station. Most of them were murdered in Auschwitz after completion in August 1943. The exhibition is the result of a Greek-German educational project and a collaboration between the Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour, the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the University of Osnabrück, the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It is being presented simultaneously in Greece and Germany. A website offers information and innovative learning materials.

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29 May 2008 - 31 May 2009

Exhibition under the patronage of the Foreign Ministers of the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the context of the Nazi occupation policy, the exhibition focuses on the gradual development of Nazi forced labour in the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia". It shows the mobilization of the Czech population up to the forced recruitment of entire cohorts. The exhibition documents the deployment of labour and the living conditions of Czech forced labourers as well as the system of work and punishment in labour education camps. The slave labour of the concentration camp prisoners and the specific situation of Czech Jews and Roma are also described in detail. Around 250 mainly personal documents and photographs, some of which are being shown for the first time in Germany, are on display.

Particularly noteworthy are the unique pictures of the Czech photographer Zdeněk Tmej from the years of his forced labor 1942-1944. An exhibition chapter is dedicated specifically to the forced labor of the Czechs in Berlin. A film with excerpts from interviews with survivors and thematic commemorative booklets supplement these testimonies.

8 May 2007 - 20 January 2008

The theme of this exhibition is the history of the 2.8 to 3 million Polish men, women and children who were forced to work in German war and agriculture during the Second World War. Display boards with photos and documents, original objects, biographies and a film illustrate the fate of these people.

The Polish version of the exhibition was developed by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation in Warsaw and has been shown in various Polish cities since 2005. In cooperation with the Documentation Centre for NS Forced Labor, an updated German version was produced, which will be shown at other locations in Germany.