C-1-5

Item — Box: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This colleciton contains panels and framed photographs from a 2010 exhibit shown at the University of Alabama in Huntsville's M. Louis Salmon Library. Also included is the website designed to support the exhibit.

Dates

Creation: 2010

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Biographical / Historical

This charcoal drawing by René Sousquet, done in 1946, recalls the dormitories located in four unfinished halls of the Tunnel, where the prisoners constructed the underground factory between September 1943 and May 1944. They worked in two twelve-hour shifts. The hygiene conditions at the site were deplorable. (Private collection)