Reconstruction of Lives
Cooperation with the Memorial Centre SS Special Camp/CC Hinzert mainly concentrates on adjusting data. The knowledge gained on the prisoners of CC Hinzert at both the memorial centre and the archive of the International Tracing Service (ITS) is compared, rectified and completed. Proceeding this way, the two institutions hope to reconstruct as many lives and fates of the former inmates as possible.
Between 1939 and 1945, a total of about 13,000 prisoners was interned here. Its original purpose as police and labour reform camp had been to re-educate and discipline so-called “Arbeitsscheue” (people unwilling to work). As of July 1940, Foreign Legionnaires from France and resistance fighters from Western Europe were incarcerated here as well, with forced labourers from Eastern Europe adding to their number from June 1943 onward.
Cooperation outlined in keywords:
- The data on the prisoners of CC Hinzert are compared and adjusted with the findings in the ITS archive.
- Further lives and fates are reconstructed.
- Biographical handouts may be produced, e.g. also for educational ends.
- The partner organisations assist each other in the research and educational fields on both an internal and external plane (talks on subjects and institutions in the partner organisation / in the other federal land).
- The partner organisation may be asked to loan exhibits.
- The partner organisation is specifically involved in events and publications.
- Term: unlimited - according to unofficial agreement of August 2009.
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