Forcibly removed

October 10, 1996, Sumy.

The video shows the National Foundation for Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation, which pays compensation to concentration camp prisoners and Ostarbeiters.

A woman is applying for a payment, people are waiting in line, a man is receiving Deutschmarks; the Regional State Archive, a poster “Greetings from Germany,” photographs, letters, documents, files of forcibly deported Ukrainians, newspapers.

Note: Payments to former forced laborers from Ukraine were made by the Ukrainian National Foundation for Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation, which later became a partner organization of the Foundation for Memory, Responsibility, and the Future. The foundation was founded after an agreement was signed on December 16, 1992, between Boris Yeltsin and Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl. This agreement, among other things, determined the amount of payments for citizens of russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

The russian federation and Ukraine received 400 million Deutschmarks each, and Belarus received 200 million Deutschmarks, intended for payments to victims of the National Socialist regime. The agreement concluded in 1993 between Germany, russia, Ukraine and Belarus defined the categories of persons who suffered from the Nazi regime. These included those who had been held in concentration camps, prisons, or ghettos, as well as those who had worked for at least six months in forced labor. The list of victims also included children who were forcibly adopted or kept in labor camps.