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

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.

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

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.

participants of the "Study & Work Camp" will trace the industrial history at different places in the city and explore how it relates to us and our lives today. The camp adopts an explicitly hands-on approach [...] restored, what stories do the objects tell and how can they be turned into an exhibition in the end? The camp, jointly organised by the bzi and the International Youth Community Services (ijgd), ERIH and HTW [...] the events will be held outdoors and participants will be testing themselves on a regular basis. The camp language is English. more

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.

Links: WIKIPEDIA: Extermination camp The Holocast explained: Extermination camps Unesco World Heritage List: Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) Auschwitz Birkenau [...] find a more effective method than shooting. Rudolf Höss, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, later recalled that Adolf Eichmann, the "manager of the genocide", told him in the summer of 1941 [...] on a conveyor belt that ended in the crematoria. Between January 1942 and November 1944, when the camp was at full capacity, approximately 1.1 million people died in Birkenau. The railway connection, which

labor camp in Berlin-Schöneweide. From June 1944, deported civilians from all over Europe lived here, as well as more than 400 Italian military internees and about 200 female concentration camp prisoners [...] Labour Documentation Centre, which is housed in six of the barracks of the almost completely preserved camp. The location at the very place of injustice is one of the reasons why the exhibition "Forced Labour

to independent investigations. The first camp for forced labourers was established in the Soviet Union in 1919, and by 1930 a network of more than 200 labour camps had been set up in the north of the USSR [...] different scale: more than 13 million civilians, prisoners of war from West and East, and concentration camp inmates were forced to work in German industry and agriculture. In August 1944, the civilian labour [...] first they were housed in dance halls or gymnasiums, but increasingly in quickly erected barrack camps. The food was wretched. Western European civilians were allowed to earn extra money for food, while

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.

member from their respective native region - visited in the run-up to the Summer School. Follow-up BarCamp-style workshops will approach solutions to existing challenges and explore ideas for potential projects

Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a prisoner in concentration camps, but, unlike many of his fellow workers and prisoners, he survived, and went on to establish a reputation [...] at one time weighed only 45 kilos. After about four years he was transferred to the concentration camp at Dachau and then to that at Buchenwald, where he was one of the prisoners who seized power from

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"