Past Event
Tuesday, August 25, 2015, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
J. Elke Ertle: Walled In
12428 Woodside Avenue, Lakeside, 92040
Cost: Free
In conjunction with the Lakeside Library’s Books and Brunch program, J. Elke Ertle will discuss her memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom.
Between the end of World War II and 1990, Berlin straddled the East/West divide. Elke grew up in the western sector and experienced the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, and the Berlin Wall firsthand. When her strict parents added parental walls almost as high as the one that had been in Berlin, she immigrated to the United States.