On Wednesday, April 19, Grit Poppe and her son Niklas Poppe will read from their unpublished manuscript “Abported, banned, disappeared – German war youth in Stalin’s camps and prisons” at the memorial at Leistikowstrasse 1. In it, the fates of sixteen young, unlawfully imprisoned, who survived the imprisonment on Leistikowstrasse and the deportation to the Gulag, were recounted.
The reading will be accompanied by music by Detlef Jablonski. Afterwards, the victims of Stalinist violence will be commemorated. The first arrests were made by the Soviet secret services as early as 1945. By the spring of 1946, 56 young people and children from Potsdam had been sentenced to death or long prison terms, 14 of them shot.
