East German Refugee

Communism

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Monika Anni Charlotte Khalaf (Georgi)

* 1949

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, East German Refugee

7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic

Photograph, January 2014

Manfred Matthies

* 1941

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Nominees for the Memory of Nations Awards 2014, GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR and 3 more categories

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

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Frank Plunze

* 1962

Political prisoner in the GDR, Reception camp for GDR- refuges in Gießen, FRG, East German Refugee, The ransom of political prisoners in the GDR, Victims of East-German secret police (Stasi)

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Markus Rindt with instrument

Markus Rindt

* 1967

Germany, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, East German Refugee, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

November 1989 - at the western side of the border

Andreas Schumann

* 1953

Reception camp for GDR- refuges in Gießen, FRG, East German Refugee

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

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Lothar Szielasko

* 1935

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), East German Refugee, Germany

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic, 17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

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Christian Weiss

* 1976

Reception camp for GDR- refuges in Gießen, FRG, East German Refugee, Germany

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 19.8.1989 - Pan-European Picnic

Thomas Wieske in GDR prison

Professor, Dr. Thomas Wieske

* 1958

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , The ransom of political prisoners in the GDR, University professor, Political prisoner in the GDR, East German Refugee and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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