CHRISTBURGER 68

I met E. and H. in early fall of 2020, briefly after I had moved back to Germany from the United States. I was introduced to them by a younger woman who I have met a while ago. They were related and lived for their entire life in the eastern part of Berlin, which once belonged to the German Democratic Republic from 1949 - 1990 as part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. When I had learned that Eckardt had been living across the street from my apartment till the early 70’ I wondered how and why he had decided to move away….more to come