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The opening of the "Preserve the memory" exhibition 

The grand opening of the exhibition "Preserve the memory. The forced and slave labor of Polish citizens for the Third Reich in the years 1939-1945" was prepared by Dr. Tomasz Gliniecki and the Chairman of the Board of the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation, Dariusz Pawłoś.

The introduction to the exhibition was delivered by Jakub Deka, the exhibition curator from the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation.

The exhibition presents the fate of prisoners of ghettos and concentration camps, workers deported for forced labor, prisoners of war and women and children deported to camps and for forced labor.

The exhibition will be presented from November 23 to the end of December 2017.

The exhibition presents:
• the German occupation in Poland
• the organization of forced labor
• slave labor
• Polish forced laborers
• evictions
• Germanization
• children of forced laborers
• return home or emigration?
• heroes
• the path to reconciliation
 

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