Book launch of "Heimwege - the story of a lost youth"

Museum.BL
Liestal, Switzerland
Buchcover «Heimwege» von Boris Oppliger, zvg Verlag Baselland
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Verlag Baselland is presenting the childhood records of the recently deceased author Boris Oppliger from Münchenstein. In the book, he describes his upbringing as a foster and foster child in the 1940s and 1950s. The historian Dr. Loretta Seglias introduces us to Boris Oppliger as a person, places his fate in the overall Swiss context of compulsory welfare measures and locates his individual life story in the structural grievances of the time.

In the foyer of the Museum.BL
Event accompanying the guest exhibition "I was simply nobody" - Welfare and coercion in Switzerland
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Liestal, Switzerland
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Free entry with the Museums-PASS-Musées
Dates
On 09 June 2026
Tuesday: 18:00-20:00
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Book cover "Heimwege" by Boris Oppliger, zvg Verlag Baselland
Book launch of "Heimwege - the story of a lost youth"
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