Nazi forced laborer and concentration camp survivor from Ukraine
The almost 100-year-old eyewitness survived the famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932/33 and the Second World War. She has been living through the Russian war of aggression since 2022.
Anastasia Gulej comes from the Poltava region. In April 1943, the Germans deported her to Silesia for forced labor. There she had to do hard physical labor in an ironworks. Anastasia tried to escape and was caught; as punishment, she was sent to the KZAuschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the late summer of 1943. There she worked in the Budy agricultural detachment outside the main camp. After the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, Anastasia Gulej was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where British troops liberated her in April. She returned home four months later.
Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, Anastasia Gulej has been active as a contemporary witness. Russia's war of aggression forced her to leave her homeland in 2022. she lived in Saxony-Anhalt for 15 months before returning to Kyiv.
Welcome: Dr. Christine Glauning Director of the Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour
Contemporary witness: Anastasia Gulej Born in 1925, studied forestry
Moderator: Maik Reichel Director of the Saxony-Anhalt State Center for Political Education
The discussion with the contemporary witness will be held in Ukrainian and will be simultaneously translated into German.Translated with DeepL
Additional information
Dates
December 2025
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