Our last contribution to #TheHumanAsACommodity and at the same time to #22June1941 is the story of Petr Fedorowitsch Didenko, who had to do forced labour as a prisoner of war at Siemens in Berlin.

More on the topic at: https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/ https://t.co/nFwoAGkXkB

Der Mensch als Ware – Zwangsarbeit bei Siemens in Berlin – Ein studentisches Ausstellungsprojekt

With Hanns Benkert, we want to introduce you to a Siemens manager at #TheHumanAsACommodity. Under his leadership, forced labourers were mistreated and intimidated. He is sentenced after the war. After his death 1948, he is acquitted following an appeal by his widow.
In #TheHumanAsACommodity we would like to introduce Hertha Ehlert to you today. She decided to pursue a career as a concentration camp guard. One survivor describes her as: "vicious in character and an absolute master of the whip."
More at: https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/hertha-ehlert-die-kz-aufseherin/en/
Entnazifizierung – Der Mensch als Ware

The Human as a Commodity
Tiziano Di Leo came to Germany as an Italian soldier for #forcedlabour after refusing to fight for the Germans. He has to work for Siemens-Schuckert in #Spandau and writes and draws about this time. #TheHumanAsACommodity
More about him: https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/tiziano-di-leo-vom-verbuendeten-zum-kriegsgefangenen/
Tiziano Di Leo – Der Mensch als Ware

Under #TheHumanAsACommodity we would like to introduce you to Marcel Tuchman. To escape #Auschwitz, he enlists in a Siemens commando, which ultimately leads him to #Berlin- #Haselhorst. Find out more about Marcel's story, including an interview, at https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/marcel-tuchman/
Marcel Tuchman – Der Mensch als Ware

Elisa Gérard from Alsace did forced labour at Siemens in #Hakenfelde. One of the few joys of this time may have been the camp choir in which she sang.
#TheHumanAsACommodity
More information on Elisa and forced labour at Siemens in Berlin at: https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/elisa-gerard-die-nachtigall-aus-dem-elsass/
Elisa Gérard – Der Mensch als Ware

Hans Goldmann grew up in #Berlin #Dahlem. From 1941 onwards, he had to do forced labour in the Siemens electric motor factory. He feels relatively safe here.
In 1943, he is deported to #Auschwitz and murdered there.
#TheHumanAsACommodity

https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/hans-goldmann-nach-der-schule-in-den-geschlossenen-arbeitseinsatz/

Hans Goldmann – Der Mensch als Ware

Waltraud Blass was interned in the women's concentration camp #Ravensbrück because she helped forced labourers, there she became a #forced labourer at Siemens. A claim for compensation in 1990 was dismissed. More at https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/waltraud-ebbinghaus-verh-blass-2/

#TheHumanAsACommodity

Waltraud Ebbinghaus – verh. Blass – Der Mensch als Ware

Ein Artikel über unsere Ausstellung #DerMenschAlsWare von. Studierenden des @[email protected].
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An article about our exhibition #TheHumanAsACommodity by students of the Touro College Berlin.

https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1151440.zwangsarbeit-im-zweiten-weltkrieg-profiteur-der-ns-barbarei.html

Profiteur der NS-Barbarei (neues deutschland)

Der Siemens-Konzern gehört zu jenen Unternehmen in Berlin, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs massiv vom brutalen Einsatz von Zwangsarbeiter*innen profitierten. Eine neue Online-Ausstellung macht deren Schicksal sichtbar.

On the occasion of our exhibition #TheHumanAsACommodity We will start with the probably largest camp in #Haselhorst for 4,610 people in our series #ForcedCampsBerlin. More information on the camp here is to be found in the exhibiton here: https://siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/siemens-lager-salzhof/
Siemens-Lager Salzhof – Der Mensch als Ware