Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Miriam Weber
- 13. "it was dark and I was lucky - later I learned that they usually patrolled the gardens as well" – p
21
- 14. “I still have the scars on my hands from climbing the barbed wire, but you can't see them so well
now" – p 22
- 15. "perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back" – p 31
- 6. “Welly you need to report to the district attorney’s office and collect your husbands things,
because he is dead.” pg36
- 8. “Ever in that terrible light, I could still see his head injuries. And I could see his neck –they’d
forgotten to cover it up” “There were no strangulation marks, nothing.” “Stuck in the amber of
memory” pg40
- On 26 August 1980 Charlie Weber was arrested and held in a remand cell” pg36
- 7. “For Miriam, the past stopped when Charlie died” pg42
- 1. “At sixteen you have an idea of justice, and we just thought it was wrong. We weren’t seriously
against the state – we hadn’t given it that much thought. We just thought it wasn’t fair to rough
people up and bring in horses and so on” pg15
- 4. “Miriam climbed through and over the fences separating the gardens, trying to get closer to the
wall.”pg21
- 3. “Until the early 1970s the stasi used to monitor the angle of peoples antennae hanging out of their
apartment, punishing them if they gave up: the benefits of soporific commercial programming
apparently outweighed the dangers of news bulletins from the free world”pg17
- 2. “The stasi arrived at a shortlist of subjects. Men with gloves and dogs combed Miriam’s house.”
pg17
- 11. “She humiliated the Stasi. It was 'beyond comprehension that a sixteen-year-old with no tools, no
training, and no help' could scale the wall” - p 25
- 12. "if she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it"
- 10. "alone in the big city"
- 8. “Ever in that terrible light, I could still see his head injuries. And I could see his neck –they’d
forgotten to cover it up” “There were no strangulation marks, nothing.” “Stuck in the amber of
memory” pg40
- 16. "the deportation came eleven years too late... and six months too early''- p 45
- 17. Funder - "all of a sudden I am very tired... I look up and it is dark outside" – p 33
- 18. "she was brave and broken all at once"