Project tells story of Nazi forced labor

Project tells story of Nazi forced labor - Yahoo! News

Helena Bohle-Szacki was seized by the Nazis in 1944 and thrown into the Ravensbrueck concentration camp as a forced laborer.

Her story is one of 590 audio and video interviews of former forced laborers from 26 countries made available online Thursday by the German Historical Museum, the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future foundation, and Berlin's Free University.

The online archive, "Forced Labor 1939-1945," is intended to make the experiences of former forced laborers available to researchers, teachers and students worldwide. In 398 audio interviews and 192 video interviews in 25 languages, eyewitnesses tell the stories of their lives.

In one of the video interviews, Bohle-Szacki gazes at the camera, cigarette holder in hand, describing how she and a friend survived as teenagers — and even mustered small acts of resistance, like sabotaging a drill press.

Bohle-Szacki, 80, said Thursday that she had felt an obligation to participate in the project.

"There are so few witnesses left from this time and I think one has to talk about it, particularly now with a certain distance and new knowledge."

 

is it on cd yet kai

 

Ah, yes, one of the threads the Herrenvolk in this forum never come to.

 

I wonder why? You that just like Hitler was "Forced" to attack the Soviet Union he was "Forced" to do alot of other things. Like using Forced and Slave labor.