Könnten Ahnen manchmal ahnen

Sometimes my life reminds me of my grandmother's stories about the war, about deprivation, about forced sales, about the construction of the wall, and about isolation, and then I think to myself: history has somehow repeated itself for me. This is how the author Ulrike Linke writes, who, after a two-year wait, finally received permission to leave the GDR shortly before the fall of the wall in June 1989. What she and her family had to endure until then, from surveillance by state security to unresolved deaths, she describes in this book. And the struggle for justice and compensation continues to accompany her and her family to this day.