*contained traces of forced labour
Whether in the bakery, the textile factory or on the football pitch - forced labour was omnipresent in National Socialist Germany. The motifs symbolise the…
International Youth Meeting Center
The International Youth Exchange Centre (IJBS) is located on the grounds of the Documentation Centre. It offers a place where young people from different…
Nothing to celebrate after work
The living conditions of forced labour
The daily lives of the forced laborers were hard. Regulations also determined everyday life outside of work. Their…
Maria Kawecka
Maria Kawecka was born in 1918 in Lewiny, Poland, 40 km away from Łódź In April 1942 the Germans picked up the 24 year old Maria, her two brothers and her parents. The brothers…
Bolesław Zajączkowski
Bolesław Zajączkowski was born in 1923 in the Polish industrial city of Łódź . When the Wehrmacht marched into Poland in 1939, the then 16-year-old was a scout and helped…
Galina Romanowa
Galina Fyodorovna Romanova was born in 1918 in the Ukrainian village of Romankovo near Dnipropetrovsk, the daughter of a blacksmith. She had two younger brothers. As a…
François Cavanna
François Cavanna was born in 1923 as the son of an Italian construction worker and a French maid and grew up in Nogent-sur-Marne near Paris. After finishing elementary school,…
Who wants to live, risks life
Disciplining through Terror
The surveillance, disciplining and terrorization of the forced laborers were among the main tasks of the police, the Gestapo and…
Ended, but not over
Dealing with Nazi forced labour after 1945
With the liberation at the end of the war, most forced laborers tried to return to their home countries as quickly as…
Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck-Groll
Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck-Groll was born in Amsterdam in 1925. He studied mathematics during the occupation of the Netherlands. When Temminck-Groll, like…
