Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. I
6. Introduction 1
7. II
8. 1. Reports from Germany on Forced and Slave Labour 23
9. 2. Work, Repression and Death after the Spanish Civil War 37
10. 3. Czechs as Forced and Slave Labourers during the Second World War 47
11. 4. Slovak Republic (1939–1945) 59
12. 5. ‘You can’t say it out loud. And you can’t forget’ 71
13. 6. The Fate of Polish Slave and Forced Labourers from Łódz 86
14. 7. Interviews with Polish Roma 99
15. 8. The French Experience 113
16. 9. The Experiences of Hungarian Slave and Forced Labourers 124
17. 10. ‘Mother, are the apples at home ripe yet?’ 138
18. 11. Of Silence and Remembrance 151
19. 12. ‘If you lose your freedom, you lose everything’ 166
20. 13. They Survived Two Wars 177
21. 14. Forced Labour in Bulgaria 1941–1944 188
22. 15. Lithuania 1941–1944 199
23. 16. Belarusian Forced Labourers 211
24. 17. Forced and Slave Labour in Belarus 226
25. 18. The Experience of Forced Labourers from Galician Ukraine 238
26. 19. Oral Histories of Former Ukrainian Ostarbeiter 250
27. 20. Oral Testimonies from Russian Victims of Forced Labour 262
28. 21. The Experience of Citizens of the Former Soviet Union as Forced Labourers in Nazi Germany 276
29. 22. Presenting Life in Captivity 286
30. 23. Women’s Biographies and Women’s Memory of War 296
31. 24. The Deportation of the Italians 1943–1945 310
32. 25. Former Forced Labourers as Immigrants in Great Britain after 1945 324
33. 26. Slave Labour and Shoah 338
34. 27. International Slave and Forced Labour Documentation Project 351
35. 28. Forced and Slave Labour in the Context of the Jewish Holocaust Experience 364
36. III
37. 29. A Memorial for the Persecuted, Materials for Education and Science 377
38. 30. ‘A moment of elation … and painful’ 394
39. 31. Witnesses at the First Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt 407
40. 32. Twenty-five Years Later 426
41. 33. It Was Modern Slavery 441
42. Appendix 1: Interview Guidelines 485
43. Appendix 2: Timeline 495
44. Appendix 3: Interview Partners 509
45. List of Contributors 523
46. Bibliography 525
47. Index 538