07/09/2026
Agnes Kaposi was born in Debrecen, Hungary and survived slave labour from the age of eleven in agricultural and armaments factories.
Kaposi was around eleven she worked on a state farm at Magdalenenhof in Lower Austria, contributing to N**i agricultural production. Soon after, in Vienna, she was forced to work at the Ostmarkwerke Arsenal armaments plant, moving materials around a factory producing anti-aircraft guns.
At the same time, the young men in her extended family were drafted into Hungarian military labour battalions on the Eastern Front, most never to return, an absence that remains central to her memory of the Holocaust.
In 2025, portrait and documentary photographer Mike Stone captured a series of portraits of survivors impacted by forced labour during the Holocaust, inspired by his own research on the links between forced labour and camera companies such as Leica.
These portraits were made on a Leica IIIa and the negatives were exposed on ORWO UN54, a black-and white film produced by the former Agfa factory at Wolfen, which was a part of I.G. Farben in the 1930s and 1940s.
A selection of Mike's portraits are featured in our current exhibition, N**i Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims, which is on display until 30 October.
