This poignant memorial to the Berlin wall houses an open-air museum documenting events which took place here in 1961 and beyond. This street was divided by the wall with people living in apartments on either side unable to speak to each other any more. Some people escaped immediately with daring jumps from windows, while others remained and watched their doors and windows being boarded up. The Chapel of Reconciliation which stood in this area was demolished in 1985, just four years before the wall came down in 1989.
It's so interesting getting to see this. I visited the year the wall came down and have not been back since. When I was there, the wall and checkpoints were there, though the wall pieces showed how it was being dismantled. Now there's a park...fascinating.
