TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum
T1  - Swimming to Freedom
T2  - Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa
PY  - 2021/09/20
UR  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/link/60424942decf54.58032862
DA  - 2025/06/21
PB  - Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
LA  - en
AB  - On the night of May 22-23, 1979, 36-year-old Gernot Eamandi swims across the heavily guarded Danube from Romania to Yugoslavia. His destination: the Federal Republic of Germany. With him: a backpack from his army days.
KW  - Romania
KW  - Temišvar
KW  - Yugoslavia
KW  - Banat
KW  - Danube (River)
KW  - Danube Swabians
KW  - Migration (human)
KW  - Flight (human behaviour)
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Border (built environment)
KW  - Banate Swabians
KW  - 4th quarter 20th century
KW  - History
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Migration history
KW  - Alltagsgeschichte
L1  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/doi/60424942decf54.58032862
ER  -