elka rosen remembers it as part of the world she grew up in as part of her street she lived at batignolles truss unleavened just above street level. oka rosen was 16 when the border cut through a street and her life how can she communicate this experience ok rosen leads the kids along a street that bears no resemblance to the burner strasser of her childhood. where this was east berlin and the street over there on the other side of the spawns was west berlin yes our building stood here now just imagine when we leaned out the window our low bodies were in east berlin and i had bodies in west berlin. the construction of the wall in august 13th 961 put an end to that situation for not right away 4 days later the streets leading from east to west had been blocked but the front door to burn or strasser 11 was still open. one day had lunch our parents said all right when you're done in a single take a few belongings and today we're going to flee. we're leaving east berlin. oh look there's our escape that's my mother running a camera man happened to film the family as they fled. we were able to l