Marienetta Jirkowsky

Marienetta Micki Jirkowsky was a German woman killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall.

Marienetta Jirkowsky was born onAugust 1962 in Bad Saarow, the only daughter to the skilled bricklayer Klaus Jirkowsky, and his wife, Astrid, employed by the Reifenkombinat Frstenwalde, a tire manufacturing plant, where Marienetta would eventually take an apprenticeship and employment as a textile processor. She grew up in Spreenhagen, in Brandenburg, and last lived on Birkenweg 13, in Spreenhagen. Micki, as her friends called her, was a small, freespirited and funloving person. She and her friends really just wanted to live in peace, without any problems and without being forbidden to do anything, her friend Falko Vogt later explained. During the school year, she had little contact with other students. Instead, during her spare time, she helped in a retirement home in the neighboring village of Grnheide, where she was very popular with senior citizens. She began her Reifenkombinat apprenticeship in 1979. Falko Vogt had been thinking about escaping for a long time. He and Marienett

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