Workbook For Forced Laborer, Nicholai Bigunow

Authors

Object ID

2022.1.26

Object Name

Workbook

Date

1-12-1945

Files

Content Warning

The Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection consists of images, documents, and artifacts related to the Holocaust. The collection contains materials that depict a number of topics that may be difficult for viewers to engage with, including: antisemitic descriptions, caricatures, and representation of Jewish people; Nazi imagery and ideology; descriptions and images of German ghettos; graphic images of the violence of the Holocaust; and the creation of the State of Israel. For more information, see our policy page.

Description

a: 38 page booklet belonging to Nicholai Bigunow; sepia toned photograph stapled on page 2, multiple handstamps throughout pages 2-11; no stamps from pages 12-38 just blank form. b: form with perforated left edge of page, ‘Arbeitskarte’ at top left, ‘Befreiungsschein*’ at top right with red marker highlighting.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Nicholai Bigunow was born May 9, 1920 in Odessa, in the Ukraine. His Third Reich workbook - Arbeitsbuch fur Auslander - refers to him as an Ostarbeiter or Eastern Worker. Because Ostarbeiters are considered enemies of the state they are taken by force and shipped by train to Germany, they are treated as prisoners irrespective of sex, and kept in camps under guard. He worked in the Berlin area. In 1945, he was working for a building company.

Dimensions

5 3/4 x 4 1/8"

Keywords

Nicholai Bigunow, Ukraine

Subcollection

Labor

Recommended Citation

"Workbook For Forced Laborer, Nicholai Bigunow" (1945). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2022.1.26.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1873

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.