Berlin Wall Anniversary: Harvard Gazette features CES scholars and speakers

Sarotte’s extraordinary experience in Germany happened the year before the wall came down. A recent Harvard graduate, she was considering law school or a career in medicine until her transformative time in East and West Berlin set her on a path to history.

“I lived there that year and I was a historian, that was that. I wanted to understand what was going on, I wanted to understand causes. And I haven’t looked back.”