Looking for family ..
On the left is Gerda ( born Arndt ) with her husband, my grandfather Erich Seidel … Martha Hilda Schmidt .. his mother on the right …

He was an architeckt in Berlin
This is the only photo of his father that I have
Tag: east Germany
Watching tv
Working on my family tree I just turned the TV on while making coffee this morning. My family comes from West Berlin, so to say my family comes from Berlin in general, but when the Berlin wall went up, it was divided east to west… and our family was divided like so many others..
I don’t know if it was God or what or should I say? I know that it was him because why else would I turn the TV on and they start talking about East Berlin..
Arndt family
Looking for the Arndt Family .. Does anybody else recognize anybody in the photo ??? Trying to find more information on the Arndt Faniky … this is a photo post card …
Arndt/henning family
Mrs. Elisabeth Arndt, lives in Niederschlagsrade or niederschoneweide Berlin, Brueckenstr. 11. but that’s all i can make out!.. can anyone help out.
Berlin
Thinking of all those people who tried to cross the border, including probably my family as well as I come from Berlin Germany we had family in the Eastern family in the west..
On This Day: The First Person Shot at the Berlin Wall
On August 24, 1961—just 11 days after East Germany sealed the border—24-year-old Günter Litfin attempted to escape from East to West Berlin.
Litfin made his way through the grounds near the Charité and jumped into the Humboldthafen, hoping to swim the final stretch to West Berlin. East German transport police spotted him, fired warning shots, and then opened fire as he continued swimming.
He was struck in the back of the head, only a short distance from the West Berlin shore. Hundreds of West Berliners gathered on the opposite bank as his body was recovered several hours later.
Günter Litfin became the first person to be deliberately shot and killed while attempting to escape across the Berlin Wall—a grim indication of how far the East German regime was prepared to go to stop people from leaving.
Berlin
On August 15, 1961, 19-year-old Conrad Schumann was sent to guard the Berlin Wall, which, on its third day of construction, was little more than patches of barbed wire. That day, he witnessed sad scenes of families that were separated by the wall and found himself the target of vitriol from West Germans protesting the wall’s construction.
At around 4 p.m. that afternoon, Schumann saw trucks arrive with material to make the wall even stronger and — panicked by the idea of being “enclosed” within East Germany — he decided to make a break for it by leaping over a low string of barbed wire and into West Germany.
Schumann’s leap over the wall was captured by a photographer at the scene. Dubbed the “Leap Into Freedom,” it remains one of the most iconic images of the Cold War to this day.
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