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2nd of April to 31st of May (daily between 10:00 am to 6:00 pm)
"Harvested: Who will Feed the World?"
An exhibition by the INKOTA – Network, regarding hunger, globalization and agriculture.
„By 2015, we want to reduce the number of starving people by 50%!” This slogan was used by the International Community during the 1996 World Food summit in Rome. Ten years later, and this promise seems to have been pushed further and further into the distance. Up to 1.3 billion people are still starving worldwide, and everyday up to 30.000 people die as a result of hunger and malnutrition. How can one really fight hunger? And how does one feed the world?
On a path of discovery the visitors discover why it is that people suffer from malnutrition and how worldwide hunger can be fought. Are genetic technologies and modern machinery a recipe against hunger? Why does Bio Fuel lead to hunger and how did the “Chicken of Death” make it from Europe to Africa? Are small farmers able to feed the world?
13th of November 2009 to 30th of June 2010 (daily between 11:00 am to
4:00 pm)
„Im Totaleinsatz - The Forced Labor of the Czech population for the Third Reich“
An exhibition by the „Czech-German Fund for the Future“ and the foundation „Topography of Terror, Documentation Centre Nazi Forced Labour“, Berlin Schöneweide.
The public perception towards slaves and forced laborers within the Third Reich was such, that the Czechs played a minor role when compared to Poles, Russian, Belorussians and Ukraines. For a long period of time the view in Germany was that the Czech forced laborers came „willingly“ to Germany. It was believed that they shared a „better status“ then the Poles or Russians and weren’t „real forced laborers“.
This is historically speaking not correct. With the formation of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939, the German authorities pressured the Czech population to register for work in Germany. Officially it was voluntary, however, with time the recruitment measures became more drastic. Eventually all age groups would become subjected to „Totaleinsatz“. Roughly 400,000 to 600,000 Czech forced laborers, had to work within the Third Reich under inhumane circumstances until 1945.
The exhibtion "Im Totaleinsatz“ documents the working and living conditions that these people had to endure. Focus is also put on the labor and penal system within the Workercamps, with reference to 250 personal documents and photographs. The actual slave labor of the CC detainees as well as the specific circumstances of Jews and Gypsies are looked at in detail. A film containing excerpts of interviews and recollections by survivors, adds depth to the exhibition.
The presentation is supplemented via photographs by the Czech photographer Zdenek Tmej, taken during his years as a forced laborer in Breslau between 1942- 1944 which has kindly been provided by the Archive B&M Chocola Prague.
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