News Summary

• Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims opened at The Wiener Holocaust Library.
• It examines how forced labour became central to the German war economy between 1939 and 1945.
• It is estimated that 20 million people were exploited during the course of World War II.
• Among those whose family's story is referenced in the exhibition is Eva Clarke, who was born at a concentration camp just days before liberation in 1945.
• She said that after her mother became pregnant in 1943, her parents were forced to sign a document stating the baby would be killed after birth.