Mike Creswell

Mike Creswell was a writer for the Foreign Mission Board (now the International Mission Board), and Joanna Pinneo was a photographer for FMB when the Berlin Wall was opened on Nov. 9, 1989. Watch for more stories from the IMB archives as we celebrate our 175th anniversary in 2020.

The Berlin Wall, 30 Years Later

The middle of West Berlin became one big pedestrian mall in the days after the Berlin Wall opened last November. Hundreds of thousands of East Berliners visited former homes, friends and family, [and] looked and shopped in stores they had only heard about before.

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