Claudia Heinermann
(Germany–Netherlands)

SIBERIAN EXILES-FREEDOM FIGHTERS
SIBERIAN EXILES Part - Freedom Fighters is a project about the organized resistance against the second Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. The partisan movement lasted from 1944 to 1956 and could only function with the help of the population.

Claudia Heinermann (born 1967 in Iserlohn/Germany) studied Fine Arts and documentary photography. Today she is a freelance photographer living in Delft/NL. She is dedicated primarily to long-term documentary projects and contemporary historical issues as well as genocide and the consequences of war. She has worked in countries such as Bosnia, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belgium, Germany and Rwanda. Claudia has published seven photo books so far and has contributed to numerous publications both in The Netherlands and abroad. Her works have been acquired by various Collections and shown in several museums like: National Photography Museum Rotterdam, Kamp Westerbork, Kamp Vught, Liberty Park/NL, Holocaust Museum Mechelen/Belgium, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin as well as in galleries and photo festivals in The Netherlands, Belgium, Lithuania, Georgia, Kaliningrad and Germany.
In November 2015 she published her prize winning photo book ‘Wolfskinder A Post-War Story’. For 7 years Heinermann worked on her trilogy ‘Siberian Exiles’, which was exhibited in the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam in 2023. Between 2020 – 2023 she published all three parts of the trilogy. ‘Siberian Exiles Part 1,2 and 3’ won the silver medal for the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2020-23.  ‘Siberian Exiles Part 1 and Part 3 were selected as one the best Photobooks of 2020/2022 in the Netherlands.