Ilse was only 11 years old when her family packed their bags and left from Germany to Chile, where they settled in a colony that looked idyllic from the outside, but in reality it was nothing of the sorts.

Ilse is a fictional character, but her memoirs are based on real stories that happened in Colonia Dignidad, a religious cult under the leadership of Nazi preacher Paul Shäfer. Emma Sepúlveda, the author of this novel, describes this place as a "concentration camp", she joined us in this broadcast to tell us about "Cuando mi cuerpo dejó de ser tu casa" (When my body stopped being your home).

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