Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Littauer Foundation established the endowment in order to create a new position in the library's Judaica Division, said Charles Berlin '58, Friedman bibliographer in Judaica and head of the division...
...Berlin--who received the world's first endowed Judaica library position in 1962--said the position will be called the Littauer Hebraica Technical and Research Services Librarianship, and will consist of adapting new technology to the needs of the library...
...crew of Shining Through was the first to take advantage of the new freedom offered after the fall of the Berlin Wall--most of the movie was filmed on location in East Berlin. This fact is fortunately not made the main focus for the audience, so director David Seltzer is able to put together footage that is modest yet impressive...
...April 1988 a tiny organization called the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights gathered in the East Berlin apartment of Gerd and Ulrike Poppe to draft a letter protesting the deportation of two of the group's members. The 15 people at the meeting had been close friends for years. Most were involved in Lutheran church activities; two were pastors. And at least four of the 15 were also paid informers of the East German Ministry for State Security, the Stasi...
...that even the 90,000-member Stasi force could not handle it. "They were drowning in their own paper," said Werner Fischer, a former dissident who supervised the archives in early 1990 during the dismantlement of the hated ministry. In the Stasi's beige concrete former headquarters on East Berlin's Normannenstrasse, files lie in folders, binders, boxes and brown paper bags, stacked in five floors of rotating shelves a total of 125 miles long. Some papers are baled and tied with twine, some are scattered loose, some are stuffed unsorted into canvas bags. "We found letters we never received...