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- ISBN 9781783785278
- Weight: 1290g
- Dimensions: 164 x 243mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize 2021
An Ostarbeiter was an 'Eastern Worker', rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the war, it is estimated that approximately 3 million to 5.5. million Ostarbeiter were forced to work in guarded work camps, many of them younger than 16 years old - at which age they would be conscripted for military service. Ostarbeiter worked 12 hours a day on starvation on rations; as ethnic Slavs, they were treated with extraordinary brutality by Nazi guards who considered them 'sub-human' by the standards of the Aryan master race. They were distinguished by the label 'OST' sewn onto their uniforms.
OST is based on over two hundred personal accounts, hundreds of hours of interviews, and over 350,000 letters. This important publication will ensure that the voices of the brutalised and displaced Ostarbeiter will not be forgotten.
MEMORIAL International is a Russian historical and civil rights society focused on recording and publicising the Soviet Union's totalitarian past, and monitoring human rights in Russia and other post-Soviet states. Memorial is a recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
Georgia Thomson is a translator from Russian to English. She studied at the Institut Supérieur d'Interprétation et de Traduction (ISIT) in Paris and went on to attain a First Class Honours degree in Russian and French. She lived in Moscow for several years and is now based in London.
