Tracing Jewish Berlin

Tracing Jewish Berlin

This tour, tracing Jewish life in a Berlin district where such life is luckily seeing the hint of a renaissance, focuses on architecture, but most and foremost on history and on facts, brought to you by a trained and experienced historian with a PhD in a Holocaust-related topic.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Koppenplatz, Berlin Germany

Discover this little known memorial, especially dedicated to the Jewish victims of Reichskristall-Nacht and hear about a sadly long forgotten German-Jewish poetess who managed to flee Nazi-Germany in time.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Str. 28-30, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Find out more about the architecture of this amazing building and about the courageous policeman who saved it from destruction.

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Learn more about how this Berlin landmark came about and what's so special about it.

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Visit Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind and learn how he tried to save Jews from deportation.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Sophien Church, Große Hamburger Str. 29-30, 10115 Berlin, Germany

See Berlin's only remaining Baroque church,completely intact, and learn why the street it is on is referred to as the "Street of Tolerance and Death".

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Heckmann Hoefe, Oranienburger Str. 32, 10117 Berlin Germany

Discover the quaintest of places, learn about its history, and most of all: enjoy the fantastic view you have from here on to the New Synagogue!

Duration: 15 minutes