Alice Zadek, left, with her daughter Ruth and her nephew David Hopp in East Berlin around 1956. The photograph is part of “Another Country: Jewish in the G.D.R.,” an exhibition at Berlin’s ...

10 East Berlin border guards stand atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on November 11, 1989. Two days earlier, on November 9, ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...