Did Tamara Bunke Die in 1967?

David Morgan
3 min readSep 10, 2019

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Look at the pictures below. The woman on the left is an East German clerk/librarian Gertrud(e) Helke in the 1980s. The woman on the right is Tamara Bunke who was killed in the Bolivian jungle in 1967. Helke matches Bunke at different ages in different photos at different facial angles. Usually to achieve this you need to be that person or their twin. It suggests that Tamara Bunke didn’t die in Bolivia or she had a twin that even her mother didn’t know about.

One plausible explanation is she had a cousin who was her perfect doppelganger because they shared the same father. She did have a cousin who I have found impossible to trace. But then she could be the one who died in 1967. To be Bunke — Helke needs to be 51. Does she look aged 50+?

Text below wikipedia page (translated) is:

Flöha, Gewerkschaftsbibliothek ADN-ZB Thieme 20.12.88 Dist. Karl-Marx-Stadt:
A modern social building with a trade union library was created through the complex reconstruction of an old factory building in the Hohenfichte factory of the VEB Vereinigte Baumwollspinnereien und Zwirnereien Flöha.
The clerks Gertrud Helke (front) and Angelika Einhorn look for their books, which they can borrow for free.

In the remodeled old building for the workers and employees also
a doctor and a dentist station, a maternity consultation room
and a community nurse station were created.

More matches:

Of course there are doppelgangers. This woman is an Israeli Bunke doppelanger in Tel Aviv for Yom Kippur in 1960. Unless it was Bunke…

Images to test yourself with free online facial ID:

Bunke

Helke

colorised

For facial ID matches you need to use the original B&W images
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David Morgan

Was developing apps for social good e.g. Zung Test, Accident Book. BA Hons and student of criminology. Writing about true crime. Next cancer patient.