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Helping contract workers who fled the GDR

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 18 1989
Berlin (West)
Created By: Fumiko Matsuyama

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Vietnamese migrant workers, Berlin, 18 November 1989

From the Set

Exhibition theme: Encounters and Explorations

West Berlin-based Japanese artist Fumiko Matsuyama took photographs documenting the fall of the Wall at numerous border crossings. She was approached at Bornholmer Straße border crossing by two Vietnamese contract workers who had illegally fled the GDR with the masses. She helped them get in touch with relatives in the West.

Depicts

apartment, book, contract worker, group of people, refugee, woman

Context

anxiety, apartment, contract worker, courage, dog, joy, metro, photography, refugee

People/Organizations

Fumiko Matsuyama

Places

Bornholmer Straße border crossing, Other places (Berlin)

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