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Olga Segler

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Olga Segler

Birth
Ukraine
Death
26 Sep 1961 (aged 80)
Berlin, Germany
Burial
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One of the Deaths at the Berlin Wall.
Olga Segler had during an escape attempt decided to jump from the window of her second story apartment on September 24. Her daughter waited down below on the sidewalk, encouraging her to jump. The firemen caught the eighty-year-old woman in their rescue net but she injured her back on impact and had to be taken by ambulance to the nearby Lazarus Hospital. She died from consequences of her fall on September 26, 1961.

More information may be found at

http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/opfer/Start/Detail/id/1453402/page/2
One of the Deaths at the Berlin Wall.
Olga Segler had during an escape attempt decided to jump from the window of her second story apartment on September 24. Her daughter waited down below on the sidewalk, encouraging her to jump. The firemen caught the eighty-year-old woman in their rescue net but she injured her back on impact and had to be taken by ambulance to the nearby Lazarus Hospital. She died from consequences of her fall on September 26, 1961.

More information may be found at

http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/opfer/Start/Detail/id/1453402/page/2

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