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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: Nazi forced labourers recount ordeal online AFP - Friday, January 23 BERLIN (AFP) - - Video testimony of nearly 600 survivors of Nazi forced labour programmes were posted online Thursday for historians and students to better understand their ordeal, organisers said Thursday. The project is an offshoot of a compensation fund launched by the German government and major companies in 2001 for survivors of the massive programme that saw 12 million rounded up and conscripted to work during World War II. "Their suffering should not be forgotten," the head of the "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" foundation managing the 4.4-billion-euro (5.7-billion-dollar) fund, Guenther Saathoff, told reporters. Some 1.66 million people from nearly 100 countries received compensation from the German fund between 2001 and 2007. Saathoff said the online video project arose because the former forced labourers were seeking more than reparations. "The victims did not want only money that was owed to them -- they also wanted to tell about things that no one wanted to hear about for decades," he said. The 2.5-million-euro documentary project began in 2005. Survivors ranging in age from 65 to 98 at the time were recorded on video primarily in eastern Europe but also in the United States, Israel and South Africa. One-third of them were so-called "slave labourers", often Jews or Roma who were forced to work in concentration camps in particularly degrading and frequently life-threatening conditions. A former slave labourer at the news conference, Felix Kolmer, said the online archive would make increasingly rare personal accounts of the Nazi programme available to researchers, teachers and students. "Victims will finally get the public recognition and attention for which they have often waited in vain over the last decades," said Kolmer, who is also vice president of the International Auschwitz Committee, a Holocaust survivors group. The project can be viewed at www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (1 vote) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Enlarge Photo A view of the entrance to Auschwitz, former Nazi death camp, in Oswiecim, Poland. Video testimony of nearly 600 survivors of Nazi forced labour programmes were posted online Thursday for historians and students to better understand their ordeal, organisers said Thursday. Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Obama retakes oath of office 'Dogs don't wear condoms,' says Baywatch star Anderson World crisis deepens as downturn bites in Asia US activists vent their rage as Bush exits Clinton confirmed as new US chief diplomat View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular

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