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Programme: Europe for Citizens
Identifier: 618026-CITIZ-1-2020-1-PT-CITIZ-REMEM
Title: Portuguese and Spanish Forced Labourers under National Socialism: History, Memory and Citizenship.
Summary
“The ticket to access contemporary Europe is recognition of the Holocaust”, wrote Tony Judt. The Holocaust and the horrors of World War II are today the founding historical events of European memory. One of the lesser known aspects of this conflict is, however, the issue of forced labour. Nazi Germany established a brutal system of forced labour, deporting millions of foreign civilians from occupied countries who, alongside prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners, were deployed as slave labour. This was an omnipresent phenomenon across Europe but broadly absent from the European memory. Only more recently has historiography begun to analyse this dimension and account for and give names to these victims as well as rebuilding their forgotten lives. Still more overlooked were the Spanish and Portuguese victims of the Nazi regime in keeping with how these two countries remained neutral and the corresponding perception that they and their peoples had nothing to do with the conflict correspondingly taking root. In a partnership between academic institutions and civil society organisations from 4 countries and counting on 590 participants, FORCED is to cast a light on this shared European past and foster wide reaching reflection on the consequences of totalitarian regimes and keeping alive the memory of their victims. The project’s principal target public is the educational community as well as civil society. The core outputs include a website, which shall contain an open database on these citizens with information on the life histories of the Portuguese and Spanish nationals enslaved by the Third Reich and also featuring a set of education resources to be co-designed by teachers and students for usage in the classroom and subsequently promoted through training actions. Civil society is both involved and reached out to through a touring exhibition raising awareness and transnational debate on forced labour under National Socialism and its memory.
Start Date: 01-01-2021
End Date: 30-09-2023
Duration in months: 33
Total Budget: 123730
Details
Year (Call): 2020
Country: 20000990 20000883 20000890 20000873
Activity: Strand1: European Remembrance
Coordinator
Organisation: UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
Address: CAMPUS DE CAMPOLIDE
Postal Code: 1099 085
City: LISBOA
Country:
Region: Lisboa
Organisation type: Local Public body
PIC: 960782479
UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Address: EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V
Postal Code: 08193
Region: Spain Extra-Regio NUTS 2
City: CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES
PIC: 999986484
UNIVERSITE PARIS 8 VINCENNES SAINT-DENIS
Address: RUE DE LA LIBERTE 2
Postal Code: 93526
Region: Île de France
City: SAINT-DENIS 02
PIC: 999643104
FUNDACIO SOLIDARITAT UB
Address: CALLE MELCIOR DE PALAU 140
Postal Code: 08014
Region: Cataluña
City: BARCELONA
PIC: 949499924
INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE
Address: GROSSE ALLEE 5-9
Postal Code: 34454
Region: Germany Extra-Regio
City: BAD AROLSEN
PIC: 988584037
ASSOCIACAO DE PROFESSORES DE HISTORIA
Address: RUA DAS ACUCENAS LOTE 7 - LOJA 12Lisboa
Postal Code: 1300-003
Region: Portugal Extra-Regio NUTS 2
City: LISBOA
PIC: 882710186
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