Berlin

A Family Torn Apart

  • AUGUST 14, 1961

    Elsa is stuck at a friends house due to the building of the berlin wall
  • SEPTEMBER 20, 1961

    Elsa is trying to cope with what is happening and hears about escapes in the news.
  • DECEMBER 25, 1961

    Elsa Can't really be "merry" about Christmas without family members in west Berlin
  • FEBRUARY 8, 1962

    Elsa talks about school and describes the Berlin wall
  • AUGUST 17, 1962

    Elsa talks about Alf's friend Peter Fechter being shot and left to bleed to death by east German wall patrol
  • JUNE 26,1963

    Elsa talks about John F. Kennedy's speech about the Berlin wall.
  • NOVEMBER 22, 1963

    Elsa in saddened by John F. Kennedy's murder
  • FEBRUARY 8, 1964

    Elsa talks about the injustices of east Berlin, like how she cant drive a car even if she's 16
  • JUNE 12,1987

    Elsa talks about Ronald Reagan's speech and say's she has not seen her family in west Berlin in 25 years
  • NOVEMBER 10, 1989

    Elsa is ecstatic about the tearing down of the Berlin wall, and is reunited with her family