Forced Labour. The Germans, the Forced Labourers and the War

Berlin, 01/08/2013
Exhibition “Forced Labour. The Germans, the
Forced Labourers and the War” in Warsaw
On Wednesday, 9 January 2013, the exhibition “Forced Labour. The
Germans, the Forced Labourers and the War” will be opened in Warsaw.
Following stops in Berlin, Moscow and Dortmund, the international
exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials
Foundation, initiated and sponsored by the Foundation “Remembrance,
Responsibility and Future” (EVZ), will be on show at the Royal Castle in
Warsaw up to 8 March.
The joint sponsors of the exhibition are the President of the Republic of
Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, and the President of the Federal Republic
of Germany, Joachim Gauck.
Kontakt:
Stiftung „Erinnerung,
Verantwortung und
Zukunft“
Presse- und
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Dietrich Wolf Fenner
Lindenstraße 20-25
10969 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 25 92 97-76
Fax +49 (0)30 25 92 97-11
[email protected]
www.stiftung-evz.de
Stiftung Gedenkstätten
Buchenwald und
Mittelbau-Dora
Persönlicher Referent des
Stiftungsdirektors
Leiter Presse- und
Öffentlichkeitarbeit
Philipp Neumann
[email protected]
The National Socialist crime of forced labour motivated by racist ideology
affected Poland particularly hard. From there the German occupiers
deported over two million men, women and children into the German
Reich to work as forced labourers between 1941 and 1945. Many others had
to perform forced labour in occupied Poland to support the German war
effort. The Polish forced labourers in the German Reich included not only
civilian “foreign workers”, but also more than 300,000 prisoners of war and
several hundred thousand concentration camp inmates. In the National
Socialist racial hierarchy, the forced labourers from Poland stood alongside
Königsschloss zu Warschau
Kierownik/ Centrum
Informacji o Zamku / biura
prasowego
Izabela WitkowskaMartynowicz
[email protected]
those from the Soviet Union at the lower end of the scale and were
correspondingly badly treated by their German employers.
The exhibition currently being presented in Warsaw is characterised by the
now unrestricted recognition of and respect for former forced labourers.
“This exhibition is an expression of the will for Germany to face up to its past. It
documents the horrifying European dimension of the racist labour deployment
policy in World War II.” said Günter Saathoff, Co-Director of the Foundation
EVZ.
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Berlin, 01/08/2013
Forced labour was a mass phenomenon in National Socialist Germany. The
labourers deported from all parts of Europe were deployed everywhere –
in armaments factories as well as on construction sites, in agriculture, in
craft trade industries, in public facilities and in private households.
Whether as an occupying soldier in Poland or as farmer in Thuringia – all
Germans encountered forced labourers, and many profited from them.
Forced labour was no secret, it was a public crime.
Detailed information on the exhibition and the accompanying programme
as well as further press photos are available at
www.ausstellung-zwangsarbeit.org
www.facebook.com/WystawaPracaPrzymusowa
www.zamek-krolewski.pl
Forced Labour. The Germans, the Forced Labourers and the War
International travelling exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora
Memorials Foundation, initiated and sponsored by the Foundation
“Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ)
9 January to 8 March 2013
Royal Castle in Warsaw
Plac Zamkowy 4, 00-277 Warsaw
Opening times: Tue – Sat 10-16 h, Sun 11-16 h
Kontakt:
Stiftung „Erinnerung,
Verantwortung und
Zukunft“
Presse- und
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Dietrich Wolf Fenner
Lindenstraße 20-25
10969 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 25 92 97-76
Fax +49 (0)30 25 92 97-11
[email protected]
www.stiftung-evz.de
Stiftung Gedenkstätten
Buchenwald und
Mittelbau-Dora
Persönlicher Referent des
Stiftungsdirektors
Leiter Presse- und
Öffentlichkeitarbeit
Philipp Neumann
[email protected]
Königsschloss zu Warschau
Kierownik/ Centrum
Informacji o Zamku / biura
prasowego
Izabela WitkowskaMartynowicz
[email protected]
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