Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...
The four-year study, by the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Centre of Historical Research in Potsdam, found that most of the victims were young men ages 16 to 30. German news media have estimated the ...
When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...
It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...
Ron Zuriel, a Jewish photography enthusiast, went to the wall frequently in the ... event of the year at the [East Berlin] synagogue was the annual memorial to Kristallnacht,” Kurlansky writes ...
remnants of the Berlin Wall and the Bundestag, the seat of government. The portion in the Holocaust memorial lasts for 3 seconds of the 1:08 video. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time ...
Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy sent his Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and US General, Lucius D Clay to Berlin. The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War ...