Opening Event at Chan Auditiorium starts at 3pm on the 21st.. Contact website for more information
The exhibit has an accompanying website www.dora.uah.edu, and
> received major funding from the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
> There is a button at the top right to “Schedule” which lists the main
> associated events including the opening.
> Both the site and the exhibit explore the history of forced labor in
> the construction of the V–2 missiles at the Dora concentration camp
> and Mittelwerk underground factory near Nordhausen, Germany, during
> World War II. The stories center on the victims of Dora, the
> prisoners from many nations who were forced to work in the camp and
> its sub-camps and in the underground factory assembling the V–2.
> Usually, especially in Huntsville, Alabama, the V–2 is remembered
> through the engineers who designed it, rather than the forced
> laborers who put it together. Yet the prisoners died by the score or
> lived through dehumanizing cruelty, and their experiences deserve to
> be remembered.
>
> The UAHuntsville exhibit features:
> *First U.S. showing of work from two European museums:
> * _La Coupole,_ History and Remembrance Center, Saint-Omer,
> France
> *Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum,
> Nordhausen, Germany
> *From _La Coupole_:
> *Color photos of V–2 forced labor taken by Hitler’s favorite
> photographer
> *Artwork created by Dora’s victims and survivors
> * From Mittelbau-Dora Museum:
> *”Forced Labour for the ‘Final Victory’: Mittelbau-Dora
> Concentration Camp, 1943-1945,” a new traveling poster collection
> *Artifacts
> *From UAHuntsville:
> *Snapshots taken by John Rison Jones, a resident of Huntsville
> who helped liberate Dora and documented its horrors with his camera
> *Talks by pre-eminent experts from France, Germany, and the
> United States
> The website will remain after the exhibit closes as a testament to
> the suffering of the slave laborers of Dora. Please let me know if
> you have any questions about the exhibit or about its associated
> events.
