Fwd: Dora and the V-2: Slave Labor in the Space Age

[rich]

from our friend Chris the K.


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Rich, forward to P-list when you have time.  They'll be interested.--ck


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From: Seth Wigderson <sethw at maine.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Subject: Dora and the V-2: Slave Labor in the Space Age
To: H-LABOR at h-net.msu.edu


From: "Stephen Waring" <warings at uah.edu>

Subscribers to this list may be interested in an upcoming exhibit "Dora and
the V-2:  Slave Labor in the Space Age."  The exhibit will be on the campus
of the University of Alabama in Huntsville from February 21 to March 12,
2010.  The exhibit has an accompanying website www.dora.uah.edu, and
received major funding from the Alabama Humanities Foundation.

Both the site and the exhibit explore the history of forced labor in the
construction of the V–2 missiles at the Dora concentration camp and
Mittelwerk underground factory near Nordhausen, Germany, during World War
II.  The stories center on the victims of Dora, the prisoners from many
nations who were forced to work in the camp and its sub-camps and in the
underground factory assembling the V–2. Usually, especially in Huntsville,
Alabama, the V–2 is remembered through the engineers who designed it, rather
than the forced laborers who put it together. Yet the prisoners died by the
score or lived through dehumanizing cruelty, and their experiences deserve
to be remembered.

The UAHuntsville exhibit features:

  - First U.S. showing of work from two European museums:
     - *La Coupole,* History and Remembrance Center, Saint-Omer, France
     - Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum, Nordhausen,
     Germany
  - From *La Coupole*:
     - Color photos of V–2 forced labor taken by Hitler’s favorite
     photographer
     - Artwork created by Dora's victims and survivors
  - From Mittelbau-Dora Museum:
     - "Forced Labour for the 'Final Victory':  Mittelbau-Dora
     Concentration Camp, 1943-1945," a new traveling poster collection
     - Artifacts
  - From UAHuntsville:
     - Snapshots taken by John Rison Jones, a resident of Huntsville who
     helped liberate Dora and documented its horrors with his camera
  - Talks by pre-eminent experts from France, Germany, and the United
  States


The website will remain after the exhibit closes as a testament to the
suffering of the slave laborers of Dora.



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