Behind and simply. My husband went to peru because of the crisis. If he hadnt gone there we would have died of hunger on a down. District starts october 16th dont you know. Germany is celebrating its 30th anniversary of reunification imagine 90 west germany and east germany reunited to become one nation what was it like join us on shift today to take a virtual journey through time. This is what the berlin wall look like and unbreachable stone obstacle on the close god dividing the city for most citizens of the g. D. Are leaving. The country for west germany was not possible you had to go to extreme lengths to flee like digging underground tunnels using Virtual Reality its not possible to experience what it was like when people try to escape and on from khosla got to experience what it was like for his grandfather who dug a tunnel underneath the berlin wall. This man in this picture is also measured from go is that hes my grandfather and in this picture you see him building a tunnel und
Lawrence met folds the connected 415 hours of home movie rios showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. The resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click keywords in english german french will russian watching clips from the archives of 149. 00 east german families. The footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just People Living their lives despite the dictatorship. And with me here is Alberto Herskovitz one of the initiators of that project open memory box welcome to the show thank you. We hear a lot of people from east germany say yes it was a dictatorship but it wasnt all bad is that part of what this project is trying to show no not really. Its no i would say that we have and this project has not. Another go any different than this is private life they did life in east germany something that many many people. Didnt know and know very little about ok
A sign of the former germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz political scientist lawrence mouthfuls the connected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. The resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149. 00 german families. The footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just People Living their lives despite the dictatorship. And with me here is Alberto Herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear a lot of people from east germany say yes it was a dictatorship but it wasnt all bad is that part of what this project is trying to show. Its no i would say that we have and this project has not the. Another go any