The Berlin Wall is the focus of a lecture that art history instructor Thoburn will give on Nov. 9.
On Nov. 9, 1989, the world watched as the Berlin Wall, that impenetrable symbol of the Cold War, fell when East Germans flooded through an opened checkpoint. WCC art history instructor Elisabeth Thoburn, who lived behind the Iron Curtain for 25 years, will give a lecture at WCC on that historical event and its impact on Dresden, the town where she grew up.
“The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 Years of Reconstruction and Reconciliation” begins at 6:30pm on Monday, Nov. 9, at Towsley Auditorium in the Morris Lawrence building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Thoburn will discuss how the Wall’s fall signaled the beginning of reconciliation and rebirth for Dresden through the reconstruction of its historic and religious icon, the Frauenkirche, a Lutheran Protestant church built in the 1700s.
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