Lesung & Gespräch mit Grit Poppe: „Verschleppt, verbannt, verschwunden - Deutsche Kriegsjugend in Stalins Lagern und Gefängnissen“

In the organizer's words:

The destructive power of war and ideology: a disappearing generation has its say. Emotional portraits of those affected. Insights into the diversity of fates.

Grit and Niklas Poppe describe the fates of young people after the Nazi era and the war who fell into the clutches of the Soviet secret services, were arrested and deported - often without the knowledge of their relatives. These are the stories of suffering and imprisonment of those affected from the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, who spent years in Soviet camps or the Gulag; many lost their lives. The portraits are based on unpublished interviews with contemporary witnesses. The focus is on those affected; their memories make the violations of dignity and rights emotionally comprehensible.

Grit Poppe (*1964) works as a freelance author. Together with Niklas Poppe, she published "Die Weggesperrten. Re-education in the GDR - the fates of children and young people".

Niklas P oppe (*1991) works as an educational assistant at the ROTER OCHSE memorial in Halle (Saale).