ZWANGSARBEIT IM KINDERZIMMER. Ostarbeiterinnen« in deutschen Familien von 1939 bis 1945 — Gespräche mit Polinnen und Deutschen
FORCED LABOR IN CHILDREN'S ROOMS: "Eastern Workers" in German Families from 1939 to 1945 — Conversations with Polish and German Women

Author(s): Annekatrein Mendel
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: forced labourers in WW II;
Summary/Abstract: Ljubica was one of perhaps 700,000 forced labourers who, unlike the majority of the estimated nine to twelve million people from Central and Eastern Europe, were not conscripted for the German armaments industry, but for service in private households. For the author, more than forty years later, the personal search for one person becomes a search for historical truth. “Our mothers were slave owners,” she says. No one likes to say that. To break the miserable silence, she begins to tell Ljubica’s story in 1988—and finds Germans who also remember their non-German nannies. She travels to Poland, where she makes contact with Polish women who had worked in German households. (published in the 1990s by dipa-Publishing Hoouse)

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