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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