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The interview archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" commemorates the over twenty million people who were forced to work for Nazi Germany.
590 former forced laborers of various groups targeted for persecution from 26 countries recount their memories in detailed audio and video interviews.The interviews were conducted in 2005-2006. The archive contains 32 subsets compiled from various interview projects in 26 countries under the direction of the FernUniversität in Hagen – University of Hagen.
The complete interview collection is available at Interview Archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945"

 

The subcollection included in the Fortunoff archive for Holocaust Testimonies  consists of 18 interviews conducted by Dori Laub (Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven.)

 

Literature:

  • Laub, Dori / Bodenstab, Johanna. Forced and Slave Labour in the Context of the Jewish Holocaust Experience, in: Plato, Alexander von / Leh, Almut / Thonfeld, Christoph (eds.), Hitler's Slaves. Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe, New York/ Oxford 2010, pp. 364-374
  • Laub, Dori / Bodenstab, Johanna. Twenty-five Years Later. Revisiting Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors, in: Plato, Alexander von / Leh, Almut / Thonfeld, Christoph (eds.), Hitler's Slaves. Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe, New York/ Oxford 2010, pp. 426-440

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