Agnes Kaposi was just 11 years old when she was forced to work on a state farm in Austria contributing to Nazi agricultural production. Still a child, she was later sent to an armaments plant, where she moved materials around a factory producing anti-aircraft guns.
Born to a Jewish family in Hungary, Kaposi was one of an estimated 20 million men, women and children exploited by the Nazis’ vast apparatus of forced and slave labor — an often-overlooked topic in wider Holocaust remembrance and commemoration that is now the focus of a major exhibition in London this summer.
“Nazi Slave Labor: Perpetrators and Victims” runs through the end of October at the Wiener Holocaust Library. It highlights the breadth and development of the system, which stretched from the Atlantic coast of occupied France to the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union.
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