The Wall That Came Down at Dawn

On the evening of November 9, 1989, Angelika Weiss stood in a crowd of East Berliners pressing toward the Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint. For twenty-eight years, the Berlin Wall had been as immovable as death itself — concrete, razor wire, and armed guards separating families, severing lives. No one seriously believed it would fall in their lifetime. Then the gates opened.…