Freya Klier

Born in 1950 in Dresden, Germany, Freya Klier went into a children's home at the age of three after her father's arrest. In 1968 when her attempt to flee East Germany failed, she was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment. After an early release, she became a co-founder of the GDR peace movement in 1980 and was subsequently banned from practising her profession. In 1988 she was arrested along with other civil rights activists and stripped of her citizenship. She lives today in Berlin as an author and film director. She has written Die Kaninchen von Ravensbrück: Medizinsche Experimente in der NS Zeit / The Guineapigs of Ravensbrück: Medical Experiments on Jewish women in the Nazi era (1994) among other books on wartime Germany.