Lutheran sisters recall nursing those wounded at Berlin Wall
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press
Published: October 30, 2019, 5:50pm
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In this Sept. 18, 2019, photo, Sister Brigitte Queisser of the Lutheran Lazarus Order poses for a photo in front of concrete remains of the Berlin Wall during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin. For many years, Sister Brigitte and other deaconesses lived in West Berlin across the street from the wall in the mother house of the Lutheran Lazarus Order, which ran a hospital where many of the people injured while escaping from East Berlin were treated. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)Photo Gallery
BERLIN — Sister Brigitte Queisser walks slowly along the decaying remains of the Berlin Wall, its rusty rebar reinforcement exposed where the concrete has crumbled away. The 77-year-old pauses to catch her breath, opens a gate and steps from the former democratic West Berlin into what used to be the communist East.
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