21.   Companies like Ford and General Motors have long admitted that their German factories used forced labor.

22.   Congress has adopted only one of these conventions, on forced labor.

23.   During the course of the war, the synagogue served as a place of refuge for Jewish men trying to escape forced labor and, later, concentration camps.

24.   Ethnic minorities like the Mon have been banished to refugee camps and often pressed into forced labor.

25.   Earlier this year, the German government, and corporations that used forced labor during the war, established a fund to compensate victims across Eastern Europe.

26.   Even after the war, Swiss companies hired skilled Germans, including some from I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, which used forced labor and produced gas for Nazi death chambers.

27.   Expect elaborate designs, intricate carving and tons of gold leaf, and remember much of it was executed by forced labor at the direction of missionaries.

28.   For one thing, forced labor is out.

29.   Forced labor, slavery and criminal trafficking in people are increasing globally, with women and children most at risk, the International Labor Organization says.

30.   Forced labor is common in Myanmar.