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Ida Siekmann (23 August 1902 – 22 August 1961) was a German nurse who became the first known person to die at the Berlin Wall, only nine days after the beginning of its construction.
Aug 22, 2016 · On this day in 1961: Ida Siekmann becomes the first known victim of the Berlin Wall, fatally injured whilst attempting to flee from East Berlin. In the early hours of August 22nd 1961, Ida Siekmann leapt from the window of her 4th floor apartment in East Berlin.
Nov 8, 2019 · Memorial to Ida Siekmann who died after jumping out of her apartment window at Bernauer Strasse following the closure of the border between East and West Berlin. Siekmann wanted out, so she...
When the Communist Party leadership sealed off the entire sector border on August 13, 1961, the situation for Ida Siekmann, who lived alone, changed dramatically. Like hundreds of thousands of Berliners, she was cut off overnight from relatives and acquaintances living in the other part of the city.
Ida Siekmann was perhaps scared of being caught. She was badly injured when she hit the ground and died on the way to the nearby Lazarus Hospital – just one day before her 59th birthday. The incident evoked a wave of outrage on the west side of the city.
Nov 9, 2019 · There was Ida Siekmann, 58, who became the first victim on Aug. 22, 1961, just nine days after the wall was finished. She died jumping from her third-floor window after the front of her house on...
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Aug 22, 2009 · Early the next morning, 22 August 1961, she threw many of her belongings out of the window of her third-floor flat. Probably because of her fear of being seen and stopped, she jumped out of the window herself too quickly and before West Berlin firemen were prepared to catch her.
