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Zeitzeugin-Gespräch Anastasia Gulej
Contemporary witness conversation Anastasia Gulej
Event by: Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit
Location: Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre, Britzer Straße 5, Berlin - Bezirk Treptow-Köpenick
About event
Nazi forced laborer and concentration camp survivor from Ukraine
The almost 100-year-old contemporary witness survived the famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932/33 and the Second World War. She has been experiencing the Russian war of aggression since 2022.
Anastasia Gulej comes from the Poltava region. In April 1943 the Germans deported them to Silesia for forced labor. There she had to do hard physical work in an ironworks. Anastasia tried to escape and was caught; as punishment she was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the late summer of 1943. There she worked in the Budy agricultural command outside the main camp. After the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, Anastasia Gulej was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was liberated by British troops in April. She returned home four months later.
Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, Anastasia Gulej has been involved as a contemporary witness. Russia's war of aggression forced them to leave their homeland in 2022. She lived in Saxony-Anhalt for 15 months before returning to Kyiv.
Welcome: Dr. Christine Glauning
Head of the Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center
Contemporary witness: Anastasia Gulej
Geb. 1925, studied forestry
Moderation: Maik Reichel
Director of the State Center for Political Education Saxony-Anhalt
The conversation with the contemporary witness takes place in Ukrainian and is simultaneously translated into German.
The almost 100-year-old contemporary witness survived the famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932/33 and the Second World War. She has been experiencing the Russian war of aggression since 2022.
Anastasia Gulej comes from the Poltava region. In April 1943 the Germans deported them to Silesia for forced labor. There she had to do hard physical work in an ironworks. Anastasia tried to escape and was caught; as punishment she was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the late summer of 1943. There she worked in the Budy agricultural command outside the main camp. After the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, Anastasia Gulej was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was liberated by British troops in April. She returned home four months later.
Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, Anastasia Gulej has been involved as a contemporary witness. Russia's war of aggression forced them to leave their homeland in 2022. She lived in Saxony-Anhalt for 15 months before returning to Kyiv.
Welcome: Dr. Christine Glauning
Head of the Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center
Contemporary witness: Anastasia Gulej
Geb. 1925, studied forestry
Moderation: Maik Reichel
Director of the State Center for Political Education Saxony-Anhalt
The conversation with the contemporary witness takes place in Ukrainian and is simultaneously translated into German.