Historical Actors

FORCED LABOURERS

The Ukrainian forced labourer Mariya Klimenko, 1943, Cologne, photographer unknown © NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln, Bp4368

Mariya Grigoryevna Shabanova

[Translate to English:] Teofila Knorowska

Teofila Knorowska

Elisabeth Freund, 1942 © U. Goebel, privately owned

Elisabeth Freund

Portrait of Jean-René Vidal, undated, Berlin © Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit, photo courtesy of the Vidal family

Jean Rene Vidal

Platzhalter Bild

Marie R.

Otto Rosenberg as a young man, 1947, Berlin © Landesverband Deutscher Sinti und Roma e.V.

Otto Rosenberg

Platzhalter Bild

Gennadiy Pavlovich Yerkov

Giacomo Baccarani before being taken prisoner by the Wehrmacht, summer 1943 © private ownership, Baccarani family

Giacomo Baccarani

Portrait of Klaas Touber, undated © Denkort Bunker Valentin/LzpB Bremen

Klaas Touber

Portrait photo of Leopold Claessens, undated © privately owned

Leopold Claessens

Portrait of Wilfred Jensenius, 1941 © private photograph, Gedenkstätte Wolfenbüttel

Wilfred Jensenius

HELPERS AND BYSTANDERS

Elli Köhn, left, stands with Alexander in front of the Orangery in Sanssouci Park, 1943, Potsdam © Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit

Elli Köhn

PERPETRATORS AND PROFITEERS

Portrait of Albert Speer, 1933 © BArch Bild 146II-277, Binder, license: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Albert Speer

Fritz Sauckel as a defendant in the Nuremberg Trials, 1946 © USHHM

Fritz Sauckel

Photo of Gertrud Gönnenwein on a RuSHA (Race and Settlement Main Office) questionnaire, 1940 © Bundesarchiv Berlin, formerly BDC, RS Traub

Gertrud Gönnenwein

Portrait of Hanse Freese, 1940, Berlin © photo: Renate Wippermann, Technische Universität Berlin

Hans Freese

Platzhalter Bild

Kurt Hortmann

Portrait of Max Frauendorfer from his SS file, c. 1935 © Bundesarchiv, archive signature R 3001-56217

Max Frauendorfer

HASAG factory site in Leipzig, c. 1940 © Gedenkstätte für Zwangsarbeit Leipzig

HASAG

Forced labour for Daimler in Minsk © Mercedes-Benz Classic

Daimler Benz AG

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Labour and Exploitation

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