Past Event
Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
J. Elke Ertle: Walled-In
1250 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad, 92008
Cost: Free
Join J. Elke Ertle, author of Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl's Journey to Freedom, in a discussion about her coming of age in West Berlin during the Cold War. During her 21 years of life in Berlin, Ertle experienced firsthand the effects of the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and John F. Kennedy's much-celebrated Ich-bin-ein-Berliner-speech.