Norbert wollheim biography of william

A site for remembrance of and information on the forced labourers of I.G. Farben

www.wollheim-memorial.de
 

»We have been saved, but we are not liberated.«

Norbert Wollheim, August 26, 1945

The Norbert Wollheim Memorial is named for Norbert Wollheim (1913–1998), a survivor of the Buna/Monowitz concentration camp.

He had to perform forced labor for I.G. Farben at the construction site in Auschwitz. In 1951 he filed a suit against the conglomerate in a test case seeking compensation. The Norbert Wollheim Memorial, which was inaugurated on November 2, 2008, combines commemoration of the victims of Buna/Monowitz with information about the history of their persecution and compensation.

The site of the Norbert Wollheim Memorial is the I.G.

Farben Building, which now houses the humanities and cultural studies departments of the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. Here, next to the former headquarters of one of the world’s largest