Helene "Lola" Zahn (henceforth called Lola) is a communist and economist born in Hamburg in 1910 and daughter of the Russian-Jewish Lazar Golodetz and his wife Malka. She survived the Nazi period by emigrating to France and the United States, after which she went to the Soviet Occupation Zone/German Democratic Republic out of political conviction.

Charlotte Wolff was a versatile woman who demonstrated great strength, intelligence and courage in her life. During the second half of the 1920s, she worked as a doctor at the Berlin Charité. When she had to stop her work in 1933 due to the Nazi regime, and was arrested by the Gestapo - on suspicion of espionage as well as wearing men's clothing - for a short time, she fled to France. Since Charlotte Wolff was not allowed to work as a doctor in France, she earned her living by analyzing the character of people's hands.

Werner Händler: A Voice of the GDR

Werner Händler (1920-2008) was an important radio journalist of the German Democratic Republic. He worked his entire professional life for the radio of the German Democratic Republic. As a political commentator, foreign and Bonn correspondent, he explained the world to his GDR audience and the GDR to foreign listeners*. Händler saw himself as a political journalist of the GDR. In doing so, Händler always remained true to the SED party line.