Anna Seghers (1900 - 1983) fled with her family to France via Switzerland in 1933 because she was persecuted by the National Socialists as a Jew and Communist. Her best-known works, including "The Seventh Cross" and "Transit", were written in exile and are strongly influenced by this experience.
She returned to Germany in 1947 and lived as a respected writer in the GDR from 1949. Lecture by and with Dr. Margrid Bircken, Director of the Anna Seghers Society.
