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Anna Anderson: The Woman From the Canal Who Said She Was Anastasia

2026-11-14 · · People Without a Name · 8 min read

On the evening of 27 February 1920, a young woman climbed onto a bridge over a canal in Berlin, Germany, and jumped.

A police sergeant pulled her out of the cold water. She carried no papers. She would not say her name. She would not say where she came from.

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