Exchanging Glances | Author Biography
Wolf was born Christa Ihlenfeld on March 18, 1929, in the village of Landsberg an der Warthe (now the Polish city of Gorzow Wielkopolski). After attending school in Landsberg, Wolf fled with her family, which consisted of her parents, who were grocers, and younger brother, to Mecklenberg in 1945, when Russia’s Red Army invaded her homeland during the final months of World War II. Having been born too late to be implicated in the horrors of Hitler’s regime, Wolf has remained in Germany her entire life, and was a resident and supporter of East Germany’s Socialist regime until the...
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