Exhibit: "Commemoration of the Fall of the Berlin Wall"
In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 6th – 8th grade students studying the German language at Tower Heights Middle School have made their own graffiti projects interpreting the Fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to unification and freedom for all Germans. The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that separated West Berlin from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic from 1961 to 1989. The wall was built to prevent people from escaping East Berlin to the West. The history of divided Germany is closely related to the history of the United States. American forces occupied post-WWII Germany, and helped establish the free, capitalist, and democratic West German government, participated in the Berlin airlift, occupied West Berlin and Checkpoint Charlie, and presidents Kennedy and Reagan made speeches at the Wall, etc. Each design has an alternate side which represents the student artists’ perspective and imagines experience of the Germans and the history of the Berlin Wall. See photos of the exhibit here which is located in the Woodbourne Library Marketplace.
Thank you, American veterans, for your role in promoting freedom and democracy around the world.
