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Jewish men in a forced labor camp. Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1940. [LCID: 88149]
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Forced-labor camps

The Nazis and their Axis allies used forced-labor camps during the Holocaust (1933–1945). In these camps, the Nazis (or a collaborationist regime) and private companies exploited the labor of prisoners for economic gain and to meet labor shortages. Learn more about forced-labor camps across Europe and North Africa during the Holocaust. 

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Rosenthal, a German Jewish prisoner, pushes a cart in the stone quarry of the Im Fout labor camp in Morocco.
Photo
A German Jewish prisoner at forced labor in the Im Fout camp
Abraham Lewent [LCID: ali0261m]
Oral History
Abraham Lewent recalls how he persuaded a doctor in the Skarżysko-Kamienna camp that he was fit to work
Aftermath of the liberation of a forced-labor camp in Germany [LCID: dfh0655l]
Film
Aftermath of the liberation of a forced-labor camp in Germany
Alexander Schenker [LCID: asf0997m]
Oral History
Alexander Schenker describes working as a lumberjack in a labor camp in Siberia
Media Essay
Auschwitz
Boleslaw Brodecki [LCID: bbh0126m]
Oral History
Boleslaw Brodecki describes hangings in a labor camp and their impact on the prisoners
Large barrel like structure with a circular crank attached. It sits on what appears to be an abandoned trailer in the middle of a field.
Photo
Bone-crushing machine in Janowska
Media Essay
Camps in North Africa
Simple metal comb with scratches and other blemishes
Artifact
Comb made by Yona Wygocka Dickmann
American soldiers view the bodies of prisoners laid out in rows in an open field at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. [LCID: 38099]
Article
Concentration Camp System: In Depth
David (Dudi) Bergman [LCID: dbw0059m]
Oral History
David (Dudi) Bergman recalls the importance of work for survival in the Plaszow labor camp
Doll from the Krakow ghetto [LCID: 1998mdfg]
Artifact
Doll from the Krakow ghetto
View of a tunnel entrance to the rocket factory at the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, near Nordhausen. [LCID: 01276]
Article
Dora-Mittelbau: Overview
Documentation card filled out in black ink and stamped in purple ink. A photograph of a woman with dark hair in an updo and light skin tone included in the top left corner. A total of four holes have been punched along the left side and bottom of the card.
Document
False identity for Żegota member Ewa Sarnecka
Documentation card filled out and stamped in black ink. A photograph of a man with short dark hair and light skin tone is stapled into the top right corner. A total of four holes have been punched along the left side and bottom of the card.
Document
False identity for Żegota member Tadeusz Sarnecki
Flag graphic for US 14th Armored Division
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Flag graphic for US 14th Armored Division

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