In June 1949 it was reported that there would be a Worker's Hostel at Colmslie with a projected capacity of 500 persons.

The overcrowding in the old migrant worker's hostels is mind-numbing, but the newly refurbished hostels are a delight.

However, if a worker was allocated to a Worker's Hostel that had room for dependants, the family might be able to live together at the hostel.

He managed to find a job as an apprentice cook in a small hotel through a friend and he shared a bunk in a worker's hostel with his brother.

Kerimov was paid 150 roubles (approximately $250 dollars) a month and he and his wife lived in a worker's hostel attached to the plant, where they shared one room of a two-room flat.

The Jewish cemetery in Berlin's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker's hostels, and known meeting places of the 'left'- bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses.