oka rosen was 16 when the border cut through a street and her life how can she communicate this experience rosen leads the kids along a street that bears no resemblance to the burner strasser of her childhood. by others this was all east berlin and the street over there on the other side of those bonds was west berlin yet our building stood here now just imagine when we leaned out the window our low bodies were in east berlin and her body is 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 our 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 leave by the door and my father handed baggage out because we wanted to take a few things. in my look there i am my sister my mother and my fath