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  • What the fall of the Berlin Wall meant for Eastern European Jews

    Liam Hoare|Nov 15, 2019

    By Liam Hoare VIENNA (JTA)-"Neither ox nor donkey can block the path to socialism," the East German leader Erich Honecker boldly declared on Aug. 14, 1989. Less than three months later, on Nov. 9, the Berlin Wall would fall. Newsweek's then-Berlin bureau chief Michael Meyer called 1989 the year that changed the world. In "We the People," British historian Timothy Garton Ash described the opening of the Berlin Wall as "a moment of emancipation and liberation." Ron Zuriel, a Jewish photography...