Thomas Harding's family home survived the second world war and enclosure behind the Berlin Wall. Now derelict, it was due for demolition. Could he save it? In May 1993, just over three years after the wall came down, I flew to Berlin with my grandmother, Elsie, and six of my cousins. In 1936, Elsie and her family - the Alexanders - had been driven out of Germany by the Nazis. Now 80, she was finally ready to show us the city where she had grown up. On the plane over, my grandmother handed me a b...
Thomas Harding's family home survived the second world war and enclosure behind the Berlin Wall. Now derelict, it was due for demolition. Could he save it? In May 1993, just over three years after the wall came down, I flew to Berlin with my grandmother, Elsie, and six of my cousins. In 1936, Elsie and her family - the Alexanders - had been driven out of Germany by the Nazis. Now 80, she was finally ready to show us the city where she had grown up. On the plane over, my grandmother handed me a b...
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