October 30,2009

Project on DP Camps in Korbach and Kassel

Christian Rauch Gymnasium Bad Arolsen

For one week, a group of pupils from Bad Arolsen’s Christian Rauch School has studied the history of two camps for displaced persons situated in Korbach and Kassel (Hasenhecke/Wolfsanger) in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS). Their project focused on daily life in the DP Camp, the mutual relationship between people living in the surroundings of the camp and DPs and – as far as researchable within the brief time available – single biographies of survivors of Nazi persecution and forced labour.

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