Popika, Ruta

Title

Popika, Ruta
R Popika

Description

An oral history interview with Ruta Popika (b. 1928). She was born in Lithuania with dual German nationality. She lived through the Russian occupation and emigrated to Germany during the war before making her way to England in 1947.

The collection was catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.

Date

2018-08-06

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Popika, R

Collection Items

Ruta Popika was born near the river Nemunas, in what was Lithuania before the war. She remembers her family being forced to move eastwards and westwards from Lithuania according to the changing tides of war. Remembers the occupation of the Baltic…
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