I often thought that all contemporary witnesses I met during my trip should have their story recorded, in their own words and their own voice, and that these stories should be available in some kind of database (akin to the … Continue reading
Today, I finally managed to visit two of the places my grandmother spent time here in the Urals, a small village named named Kosulino (Косулино), where she worked for three years, 1946 – 1949, and a small industrial town named … Continue reading
(scroll down for German version) Moscow is a strange city. Despite the fact that everything inside the metro ring is called city centre it has no proper inner city as you’d expect from a Middle-European city, if you neglect the … Continue reading
Perm 36 is the only and last of its kind: the last preserved Gulag in Russia and at the same time the only privately run Gulag-museum. I’m going to visit Perm 36 while in Russia, to get a feel for … Continue reading