November 10th, 2009 | Bilingual Librarian | 2 Comments#comments">2 Comments
For the 20th anniversary after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Guardian has gathered a number of online projects reflecting its history and present.
- Videos documenting the Wall’s history (The Guardian)
- Photographs submitted by readers (The New York Times)
- Interactive map tracing bits and pieces of the actual wall (BBC)
- Berlin Twitter Wall (Twitter)
- The Berlin Project
- Mauer Mob (Performance art piece that asked people to stand where the wall used to divide the city.)
- The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone (The Boston Globe)

Berliner Mauer, 2009
Para el 20 º aniversario de la caída del Muro de Berlín, The Guardian ha reunido una serie de proyectos en línea que refleja su historia y presente.
- Videos que documentan la historia del muro (The Guardian)
- Fotografías enviadas por los lectores (The New York Times)
- Mapa interactivo que sigue pedazos de la pared física (BBC)
- Muro de Berlín en Twitter (Twitter)
- El Proyecto de Berlín
- Mauer Mob (obra de arte donde se le pidió a la gente ayudar a crear una pared humana donde antiguamente estuvo el muro.)
- El Muro de Berlín, de 20 años desaparecidos (The Boston Globe)



November 10th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Hi Stephanie,
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Israelis’ wall that cuts the West Bank into pieces, and about the wall that attempts to keep Mexicans out of the USA, and wondering what history will say about them in the future? I wonder about our draconian anti-immigrant policies too… –Jean
November 10th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Yes, unfortunately we don’t seem to be very good at learning from the mistakes of others…