Steineck Films

Germany 2026, 82 min
by Jörg Steineck

Escape to Borkum tells the story of my father, Ingomar Steineck, whose privileged German childhood in Stryków, Poland, abruptly comes to an end with the final phase of the Second World War.Together with his mother and sister, he is forced to flee, spending nearly two years as a refugee while travelling through a collapsing post-war Europe. The family finally reaches Borkum, a remote island in the North Sea, where they are housed in a refugee accommodation in a former naval barracks.For th