{"id":10736,"date":"2025-11-14T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10736"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:22:08","slug":"piecing-together-the-unknown-fates-of-the-ostarbeiter-in-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/piecing-together-the-unknown-fates-of-the-ostarbeiter-in-luxembourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Piecing together the unknown fates of the Ostarbeiter in Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"luxembourg-labour-force-from-soviet-territories\"\n    >\nLuxembourg labour force from Soviet territories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 1942 and 1944, around 4,000 forced labourers from Soviet territories were deported to Luxembourg, which at the time was under German occupation. This labour force, mostly women, adolescents and sometimes children, was made to participate in the German war effort by working in the Luxembourg steel industry and agricultural sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quote-people\">\n    <div class=\"quote-people\" role=\"group\">\n        <figure class=\"quote-people__body\">\n            <blockquote class=\"quote-people__blockquote\">\n    <span class=\"quote-people__quote\">\u201f<\/span>\n    <em>It was still dark when we arrived in Differdange. Former Russian and Belarusian students who were older than us had arrived earlier, and eight grandmothers with their grandchildren, who had been grazing cattle by the tracks, had been taken by the Germans to Germany with their cattle. They were crying \u2018Dear girls, why did you come here? This is forced labour.<\/em>\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper quote-people__figcaption\">\n<p class=\"quote-people__author wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">Unpublished memoirs by Maria Talpa, 1996.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p>Around half of these people were from Ukraine, a third were from Russia and a fifth were from Belarus. Since most of them were forced to return home after the conflict, all memories of their labour and presence disappeared without trace.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"the-zwang-research-project\"\n    >\nThe ZWANG research project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of the ZWANG research project, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/news\/faces-of-the-c2dh-inna-ganschow\/\">Inna Ganschow<\/a>, a researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C\u00b2DH), was to understand the experiences of these individuals, both by tracing their individual stories and also through a more systematic investigation of this unexplored chapter in Luxembourg\u2019s history. Ganschow pieced together their daily lives in barracks and their working conditions in cement kilns, steel plants and mines, as well as on farms and in private homes, where they were forced to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quote-people\">\n    <div class=\"quote-people\" role=\"group\">\n        <figure class=\"quote-people__body\">\n            <blockquote class=\"quote-people__blockquote\">\n    <span class=\"quote-people__quote\">\u201f<\/span>\n    <em>The work was hard: unloading sand, gravel, bricks and cement from the cars, and at the factory we unloaded coke and coal. [\u2026] The boys had to carry heavy 50kg bags of cement, and if they dropped them they were beaten. We cried in secret.<\/em>\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper quote-people__figcaption\">\n<p class=\"quote-people__author wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">Unpublished memoirs by Maria Talpa, 1996.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p>Inna Ganschow has been able to identify 2,621 people thanks to the project, which is part of a strategy of collective remembrance aimed at recognising the suffering of these forced labourers and honouring their memory as another overseen group of victims of the Nazi regime in Luxembourg. It also highlights the importance of preserving this history and passing it on to future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--contain\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"Keiner weinte, es gab keine Tr\u00e4nen mehr\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100414\/Zwangsarbeiterbook-cover-web.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100414\/Zwangsarbeiterbook-cover-web-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100414\/Zwangsarbeiterbook-cover-web-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100414\/Zwangsarbeiterbook-cover-web-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100414\/Zwangsarbeiterbook-cover-web.jpg 810w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: contain; object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 3\/4; object-fit: contain; width: 75%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The research results have been published in Inna Ganshow\u2019s book <strong><em>Keiner weinte, es gab keine Tr\u00e4nen mehr<\/em><\/strong>  (Luxembourg: Capybara, 2025), which won the <em>L\u00ebtzebuerger Buchpr\u00e4is<\/em> in November 2025. The research served as the basis for the exhibition <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/ost\/\">OST \u2013 The vanished traces<\/a><\/strong> , hosted at the Documentation Centre for Human Migration (CDMH) in Dudelange. The exhibition was curated by Jo\u00eblla van Donkersgoed from the C\u00b2DH, in collaboration with Antoinette Reuter from the CDMH.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"the-exhibition-ost-the-vanished-traces\"\n    >\nThe exhibition OST \u2013 The vanished traces<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition features fourteen themed panels that tell the stories of these individuals through testimonies and personal accounts, archive documents and objects. Maps indicate the locations of the camps across Luxembourg, including in Belval, today home to the University of Luxembourg. Visitors are presented with five personal stories of <em>Ostarbeiter<\/em> from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus during the German occupation, starting with their life before the war and tracing their time in Luxembourg and their return home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quote-people\">\n    <div class=\"quote-people\" role=\"group\">\n        <figure class=\"quote-people__body\">\n            <blockquote class=\"quote-people__blockquote\">\n    <span class=\"quote-people__quote\">\u201f<\/span>\n    <em>When we arrived [home], there was also mistrust; you couldn\u2019t study or get a respectable job because you had been in Germany \u2013 in other words, you were a criminal. [\u2026] But was that our fault? Was it my fault that I was taken there when I was thirteen?<\/em>\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper quote-people__figcaption\">\n<p class=\"quote-people__author wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">Interview with Bronislawa Astrowko, 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p>The exhibition introduces visitors to five <em>Ostarbeiter<\/em>, inviting them to engage with these figures not only through texts and images but also with interviews, subtitled in English and French, which are presented here for the first time. The exhibition texts have been reproduced in a small booklet, in French and English, which visitors are welcome to take home. Van Donkersgoed has curated the exhibition to guide visitors from the darker history of Nazi occupation in Dudelange and child labour towards more empowering stories of exchange, creativity and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"Inna Ganschow (left) and Jo\u00eblla van Donkersgoed (right) at the opening of the OST exhibition\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100703\/OST-exhibition-Ganschow-Donkersgoed.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100703\/OST-exhibition-Ganschow-Donkersgoed-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100703\/OST-exhibition-Ganschow-Donkersgoed-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100703\/OST-exhibition-Ganschow-Donkersgoed.jpg 1125w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 51.00% 43.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 51.00% 43.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 3\/4; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>            <p class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image-caption\">\n            Inna Ganschow (left) and Jo\u00eblla van Donkersgoed (right) at the opening of the OST exhibition        <\/p>\n    <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"Visitor of the OST exhibition\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100845\/OST-exhibition-visitor.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100845\/OST-exhibition-visitor-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100845\/OST-exhibition-visitor-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100845\/OST-exhibition-visitor-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/14100845\/OST-exhibition-visitor.jpg 1063w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 48.00% 53.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 48.00% 53.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 3\/4; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>            <p class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image-caption\">\n            Visiting the OST exhibition in Dudelange        <\/p>\n    <\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As the stories grow lighter, so does the space itself, culminating in a final room that features family portraits and a new monument dedicated to \u201cCamp Rellent\u201d, a former labour camp in Dudelange. Designed by Anton Stepine, the monument will be installed at the Camp Rellent site after the exhibition closes. It will be the first monument at a former camp for deported workers in Luxembourg to commemorate the history of forced labour during the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/ost\/\">exhibition<\/a> is open to the public (free of charge) from Thursdays to Sundays (15:00-18:00) until 29 March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"py-48 first:pt-0 last:pb-0 wp-block-unilux-blocks-people-list\">\n    \n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"    >\nAuthor(s)<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"flex flex-wrap -mx-16 wp-block-unilux-blocks-people-item-wrapper\">\n    <li class=\"w-full md:w-1\/2 p-16 wp-block-unilux-blocks-people-item-automated\"><div class=\"ulux-card card-people bg-theme\"><div class=\"list-people bg-theme\">\n    <div class=\"list-people__container\">\n        <div class=\"list-people__visual\">\n            <figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image\">\n                <!-- Template Image Component: default -->\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-full\" width=\"\" height=\"\" rel=\"\" alt=\"Dr. Inna GANSCHOW\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMjg2NTJfX0lubmEgR0FOU0NIT1c=\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMjg2NTJfX0lubmEgR0FOU0NIT1c=--thumbnail 150w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMjg2NTJfX0lubmEgR0FOU0NIT1c=--medium 300w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMjg2NTJfX0lubmEgR0FOU0NIT1c=--medium_large 768w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMjg2NTJfX0lubmEgR0FOU0NIT1c=--large 1024w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMjg2NTJfX0lubmEgR0FOU0NIT1c=--1536x1536 1536w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMjg2NTJfX0lubmEgR0FOU0NIT1c=--2048x2048 2048w\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><!-- end Image Component -->\n            <\/figure>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"list-people__body\">\n            <h3 class=\"list-people__title\">Dr. Inna GANSCHOW<\/h3>\n            <p class=\"list-people__description\">Research scientist<\/p>\n            <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-simple-cta wp-block-unilux-blocks-people-item-automated\">\n    <a\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/people\/inna-ganschow\/\"\n        title=\"Dr. Inna GANSCHOW\"\n        class=\"link-text link-text--icon list-people__link link-absolute\"\n        target=\"\"\n    >\n        <span class=\"link-text__body\">\n            <span class=\"link-text__name\">Learn more<\/span>\n        <\/span>\n        <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"icon icon-outline icon--arrow-right \"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/themes\/unilux-theme\/assets\/images\/icons\/icons-outline.svg#icon--arrow-right\"><\/use><\/svg>    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section section wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-discover-section py-0\">\n    <div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n        \n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"discover-more\"\n    >\nDiscover more<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-discover quick-link-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-discover-item\">\n    <a\n                    href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/news\/forced-labor-on-the-belval-campus-soviet-youth-during-the-second-world-war\/\"\n                    class=\"quick-link\"\n            target=\"\"\n    >\n            <span class=\"quick-link__container\">\n                <span class=\"quick-link__text\">\n                    Forced labor on the Belval campus. 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