Many women and girls from the Soviet Union worked as maids in private households. They were treated better than the female Eastern workers in factories, but were at the mercy of their “masters” and had no right to leisure time.
Forced Labour in the Nursery
Forced Labour in the Nursery
Employment in Private Households
Moonlight Sonata
Sinaida B. first worked at the cosmetics company Schwarzkopf, then for a family in Steglitz.
Address:
Wartenburgstraße 17
10963 Berlin
Directions:
S Yorckstraße
Sources:
“Employment in Private Households”: Female workers employed (Eastern workers), 10.9.1942, Bundesarchiv, R 58/1030, Bl. 194-196
“The Moonlight Sonata”: Interview with Sinaida B., 2005, Online archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945”, za465
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