The latest EHRI document blog touches upon a rarely discussed and not well known topic in Holocaust historiography: the daily life of Jewish forced labourers in early water works camps in the Lublin district in Poland.

Historian Frank Grelka, who specialises in twentieth century East Central European political history, elaborates in his contribution to the EHRI document blog on the significance of rural forced labour in German-occupied Poland during the early period of the Holocaust (1941-1942). His use of unique archival material, such as photographs of the Jewish forced labourers and testimony of the photographer who took these photos, sheds a light on of this form of non-industrial forced labour in the region.

Read the EHRI Blog Forced Labourers and the Water Works Camps in the Lublin District