Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 è un progetto tedesco che raccoglie la testimonianza, attraverso la digitalizzazione di interviste audio e video, di 590 ex deportati nei campi di lavoro forzato nazisti provenienti da 26 diversi paesi.
Il progetto è frutto della cooperazione della Freie Universität Berlin e del Deutschen Historischen Museum, con il sostegno della Fondazione “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”.
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“Forced Labor 1939-1945” commemorates the more than twelve million people who were forced to work for Nazi Germany. Nearly 600 former forced laborers from 26 countries tell their life stories in detailed audio and video interviews. The interviews were digitized and have been made accessible online to support education and research.
The online archive provides access to nearly 600 life stories told by former forced laborers from 26 countries. The project aims to conserve, as well as to make easily available and securely accessible, the collection of audio and video interviews in many different languages that have been compiled by the Institute for History and Biography at the FernUniversität Hagen.
The survivors’ memories have been available for use by schools and memorials and for education and research since January 2009. The development of the online platform, further translations, indexing and preparation for educational use will be continued.
The project is supported by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin and the German Historical Museum.