Auf den Spuren der Zwangsarbeit

In the organizer's words:

The exhibition "In the Footsteps of Forced Labour" is the result of two international youth encounters organized by the Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour in cooperation with Action Reconciliation Service for Peace and Service Civil International Germany in July and August 2025.

International volunteers from Argentina, Belarus, Catalonia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey and the United States took part in these two-week study camps. The participants lived and cooked together, exchanged ideas and engaged in lively discussions about the history of Nazi forced labor and how the memory of the war is preserved in their own countries.

As part of the project, the volunteers explored various places in Berlin in search of traces and evidence of Nazi forced labor. They investigated how these places were shaped by the Second World War and its forced labor system.

Under the guidance of photographer Giovanni Lo Curto, the participants learned to use photography as a means of historical research and expression. They developed their own visual stories that reflect their personal perspectives on the legacy of Nazi forced labor. This exhibition presents selected insights from the digital project and offers a personal view of history from the participants' perspective.