Neues Deutschland, 4 June 1953, p. 1: picture caption 'Frauendelegationen zum Weltkongreß verabschiedet'. Delegates from Burma, Indonesia, Austria, the GDR and China were formally seen off in Berlin to the World Congress of Women in Copenhagen (opening 5 June); the photo shows Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher with the Chin
Neues Deutschland, 14 December 1957, p. 4. Report 'Warum Christin und Handwerkerfrau für den Sozialismus sind' on discussions at the 6th DFD Federal Congress in Weimar. Indonesia appears only in a photo caption: foreign guests Mrs Geeta (India), Mrs Suwarti (Indonesia) and Mrs Wu (China) surrounded by GDR delegates, ex
Neue Zeit (CDU-East), 23 November 1960, p. 1. Front page on the opening of the 7th DFD Federal Congress carries a photo caption: DFD deputy chair Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher greets Gerwani central board members Mawarni Pardede and Nastiti [Soeprapto] at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. The text adds that representatives of
Anett Keller's 2012 reportage (südostasien, German) on Lestari, an 80-year-old Gerwani co-founder in a Jakarta house of ex-prisoners: Gerwani's literacy and kindergarten work, her husband a PKI East Java leader, flight, arrest in Malang, 1979 release and life as an 'ET' domestic worker. Life-history portrait.