Frieda – The Search for My Forgotten Great-Great-Aunt

The great-grandchildren's generation confronts silence and responsibility.

At a funeral, Geraldine Oetken learns by chance that she had a great-great-aunt: Frieda, whom no one ever talked about. No one knows anything about her except that she died in 1941 in an institution for people with disabilities.

But who was Frieda? Who put her in the institution? How did her life end? And what does that have to do with us? Geraldine Oetken sets out to give Frieda back her story. Her search for clues takes her to archives and cemeteries, to Nazi Oldenburg and the Oldenburg of her youth – and into the depths of her own family history.