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Blind Faith

By Salomea GeninNarrated by Salomea Genin
Length23h 58m

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Salomea's Story: "Blind Faith" Born in 1932 as the child of Polish-Russian Jews in the Jewish Hospital in Berlin-Wedding, Salomea Genin fled with her family from the Nazis to Australia in May 1939. At the age of 12, she became a member of the 'Eureka Youth League' (Communist Youth Organisation in Australia). She joined the Communist Party of Australia at the age of 17, just as it was about to be banned. In 1951, she came to East Berlin as a member of the Australian delegation to the '3rd World Festival of Youth and Students' and was enthusiastic about the GDR. She left Australia to help build a better, anti-fascist Germany, but was not granted a residence permit. So Salomea Genin initially stayed in West Berlin and temporarily in England before she was officially allowed to move to East Berlin in 1963. In West Berlin, she had begun working as an informant for the GDR Ministry for State Security. She then continued this work in the GDR. In 1982 she realised: Instead of helping to make the world a better place, she had helped to create a police state. She broke with the Stasi and wanted to take her own life. In 1985, she began to talk about this with those affected. It was not until May 1989 that she found the strength to resign from the SED. Her resignation was printed in West German newspapers, including the Frankfurter Rundschau. …….. 1932 als Kind polnisch-russischer Juden im Jüdischen Krankenhaus, Berlin-Wedding geboren, floh Salomea Genin im Mai 1939 mit ihrer Familie vor den Nationalsozialisten nach Australien. Im Alter von 12 Jahren wurde sie Mitglied der "Eureka Youth League" (Kommunistischer Jugendverband in Australien). Mit 17 Jahren trat sie der Kommunistischen Partei Australiens bei, als diese gerade verboten werden sollte. 1951 kam sie als Mitglied der australischen Delegation zu den "3. Weltfestspielen der Jugend und Studenten" nach Ost-Berlin und war von der DDR begeistert. Sie verließ Australien, um ein besseres, antifaschistisches Deutschland mitaufzubauen, erhielt aber keine Aufenthaltserlaubnis. So blieb Salomea Genin zunächst in West-Berlin und zeitweise in England, bevor sie 1963 offiziell nach Ost-Berlin übersiedeln durfte. In West-Berlin hatte sie begonnen, als Informantin für das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR zu arbeiten. Diese Tätigkeit setzte sie dann in der DDR fort. 1982 erkannte sie: Anstatt zu helfen, die Welt zu verbessern, hatte sie mitgeholfen, einen Polizeistaat zu schaffen. Sie brach mit der Stasi und wollte sich das Leben nehmen. 1985 fing sie an, darüber mit den Betroffenen zu sprechen. Erst im Mai 1989 fand sie die Kraft, aus der SED auszutreten. Ihre Austrittserklärung wurde in westdeutschen Zeitungen abgedruckt, darunter in der Frankfurter Rundschau.

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir
Length23 hrs 58 mins
Narrated bySalomea Genin
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1How it all began
18Loni becomes Salomea
2Stills
19Israel 1972
3Transition
20Discovering feminism
4Living in St. Kilda
21No one is as blind as he who does not want to see
5Growing up
22A Jewish museum in socialist Berlin
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6The case
23I am shocked to realise I hate my mother
7The cold war
24Childhood hells
8A serious teenager
25The new decade - 1980
9Someday he will come along
26The black Bottomless Pit
10Third World Festival of Youth and Students
27Further changes
11Interim
28The confession
12Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
29The Aryan Tic dissolves
13I am orphaned
30Back to judaism
14West Berlin
31A punishable offense
15Home at last
32Further liberation
16Motherhood
33I resign from the party
17GDR Alltag
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