severely injured when she fell on the pavement. Siekmann died while on her way to the Lazarus Hospital shortly after the fall, thus becoming the first known casualty at the Berlin Wall. Burial Siekmann was buried at the Seestraße cemetery on 29 August; in September a memorial was erected at Bernauer Straße 48. The memorial was often visited by foreign politicians, including Robert F. Kennedy and Archbishop Makarios, to honour the victims of the Berlin Wall. The houses on the southern side of Bernauer Straße were torn down in 1963 and replaced by a concrete wall. See also List of deaths at the Berlin Wall Berlin Crisis of 1961 Literature Hans-Hermann Hertle, Maria Nooke, The deaths at the Berlin Wall 1961–1989: a biographical handbook (ed. the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam and the Berlin Wall Foundation). Links, Berlin 2009, , pp. 36–38 References External links Ida Siekmann – First Berlin Wall victim (English translation of) Message of the East Berlin People’s Police on the escape attempt of Ida Siekmann The Wall of Shame; August 22, 1961, November 26, 2013 But Not the Last; August 22, 2015 La Última Oportunidad (The Last Chance) Remember Ida Siekmann and 22 August 1961 Ida Siekmann's grave Ida Siekmann at Kwidzynopedia 1902 births 1961 deaths People from West Prussia Deaths at the Berlin Wall Accidental deaths from falls Accidental deaths in Germany 1960s in Berlin People from Kwidzyn County People from East Berlin East German defectors