Private Walking Tour Jewish History and World War II

Private Walking Tour Jewish History and World War II

A journey through almost 400 years of Jewish life in Berlin, where the largest Jewish community in Germany has lived, and where the atrocities of the Nazi regime began. We will visit some of the most important sites to Jewish life, then and today. From the monumental New Synagogue, the first Jewish cemetery, the street where the first Jewish families settled and much more. Placed which survived, places that were destroyed and some that have been rebuilt, and that will tell us the fascinating story of Berlin's Jewish community, which was almost erased during World War II.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Die Hackeschen Hoefe, Rosenthaler Str. 40/41 Hakerscher Markt, 10178 Berlin Germany

Stroll through the inner courteyards of the old Jewish quarter

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt, Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin Germany

Visit the workshop for the blind of Otto Weidt, whichh hired mostly blind Jewish people at the years of the holocause, saving many from deportation at a great personal risk

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Memorial Jewish Cemetery, Große Hamburger Str. 26, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Berlin's first Jewish cemetery (active between the 17th and 19thh centuries), the grave of Moses Mendelsohn and the Will Lammert memorial

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Missing House, Grosse Hamburgerstrasse 16, 10115 Berlin Germany

Memorial Installation near a building bombarded in World War II

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Str. 28 - 30, 10117 Berlin Germany

Berlin's largest synagogue built 1866 (outside view)

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Women's Protest Memorial, Rosenstraße, 10178 Berlin, Germany

We will follow the story of one of the most corageous stories of civil disobedience under the Nazi regime, the protest of the German women at Rosenstrassa

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Book Burning Memorial at Bebelplatz, Bebelplatz 1, 10117 Berlin Germany

We will visit the wonderful installation of Micha Ullman at the book burning square

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany

We will walk through Berlin's central memorial for the holocaust and try to interpret its enigmatic structure

Duration: 20 minutes