region in the last stages of the war and were then abandoned. A visit to the former concentration camp at Theresienstadt (now in the Czech Republic) in 1959 convinced him that he should develop his collection

concentration camp at Gusen was a place of forced-labour for armaments production and stone-quarrying under the Third Reich. It was one of many sub-camps of the Mauthausen concentration camp. A special company [...] brought from other concentration camps to work. The camp was bombed during the war and afterwards much of it was built over. The visitor centre shows documentation of the camp, including photographs, drawings [...] company was set up in 1938, Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (DESt) to use the labour of the camps. The first industry at Gusen was the quarrying of granite for building stone. During the Second World War

labour at several locations and drew on special sub-camps of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1944, the biggest of the Buchenwald women’s sub-camps was built at Kamenzer Straße 10-12, next to the main [...] The memorial shows a permanent exhibition about Nazi forced labour and biographies of concentration-camp prisoners made to work at the company.

Zhytomyr and studied aeronautical engineering at Kyiv and Moscow. He was sent to Stalinist labour camps before being released to work on ballistic missiles for the Red Army. His childhood home was relocated

concentration camp, which supplied labour for an oil-shale mine at the end of the Second World War, functioned between August 1944 and April 1945. It was a satellite of Natzweiler concentration camp. Prisoners [...] in local and national history was seldom presented. It explores camp life, work and the interdependencies between the village and the camp. Photographs and objects accompany the exhibition, including a [...] the exhibition that takes visitors to sites related to the mine and camp. A cemetery commemorating unnamed victims of the Bisingen camp is nearby.

cellulose nitrate that was used as a raw material at Kraiburg. When the war ended the Pürten refugee camp was set up in the buildings of the explosives factory and took in large numbers of displaced persons [...] unusual history. Within it are four museums. The town museum shows how refugees moved to the Pürten camp and found ways of making their livings in the Bavarian forests. The glass museum reflects the traditions

built at Allendorf and Herrenwald from 1938 that used up to 20,000 forced labour from a concentration camp. The plants were spread around 650 concrete buildings on a total area of 1,000 hectares. They produced

of the site since the end of the Second World War: as an industrial area, a NATO supply camp and a holiday camp. It also shows material related to the peace movement that protested against NATO’s nuclear [...] the 1980s. In 2013, the museum opened to the public a nearby bunker built in 1981 at the NATO supply camp.

monumental new airport in 1936 – a project that was stopped by the Second World War. Instead, a shanty camp for forced labourers deported from occupied countries was built on the edge of the airfield. The Soviet

was a concentration camp on the north-west edge of the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia, established in 1943 on a site used previously for a subterranean fuel depot. It was a sub-camp of Buchenwald and the [...] network of nearly 40 camps in the Harz Mountains. Extensive underground chambers, excavated by forced labour, were used for the assembly of V2 rockets. Of the 60,000 people admitted to the camp in 1943-45, a [...] 1944-45 16,000 people arrived from the Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen camps, and subsequently many prisoners were forced to leave the Mittelbau camps during April and the first week of May in 1945. The remaining

operated by forced labourers, and when columns of prisoners on forced marches from concentration camps passed through in 1945. The historic industry of the area is the quarrying, mining and preparation

dark period. The core of the exposition recounts the fate of the prisoners-of-war and concentration camp prisoners working here for the Dynamit Aktien-Gesellschaft (DAG) to produce explosives for the German

housing for families, accommodation for old people, a day nursery, medical facilities and even holiday camps. In the twentieth century Bofors was most famous for its 40 mm anti-aircraft gun, extensively used

cultural history - from an ice age woolly rhinoceros via historic clothing all the way to a modern camping stool - offer a multifaceted view of the turbulent history in the region. This so-called "Open Depot"

but conservation work on older dressing sites is in progress, aided in 2007 by an international work camp, and a youth hostel has been established in some miners’ homes at Cabeco de Piao, 2.5 km from Silvares

during the Second World War a forced labour factory, a satellite of the Mauthausen concentration camp, was built in the upper levels of the cave system. Engines and sub-assemblies were built in the u [...] is a monument above the lake to 51 prisoners who died during a forced march of 200 km from other camps to Mauthausen Hinterbrühl in April-May 1945.

famous locomotive factory, who endured slave labour under the Nazis, was imprisoned in concentration camps, served as a member of the city corporation in the decades after the Second World War, and was respected

the location of a former Royal Danish Air Force base. Military use of the site began in 1910 when a camp was established there for the training of army recruits. It became an air base in 1934, but the forces

on Todt. The tunnels were built by forced labour, and employed many prisoners from concentration camps in the vicinity. It is estimated that some 5,000 workers died during the construction of the tunnels

of Shrewsbury on 14 December 1942 and was completed on 30 June 1943. It extended over 22 ha, had a camp for 1,250 men, and 17 km of railway sidings. The industrial estate that now occupies the site provides