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Discover the inspiring and moving history of the Jewish Community in Berlin on this private walking tour of the memorials and monuments to the persecution and heroism of the Jews through the centuries, from medieval burnings to the Holocaust. On your private walking tour, your guide will talk you through the history of the Jewish Community in Berlin. See St Mary’s Church, the Block of Women sculpture, the Old Jewish Cemetery, now restored after it was desecrated by the Nazis, the Missing House, the Anne Frank Centre, and the Stolpersteins – or stumbling stones – brass squares embedded in the pavements, and inscribed with the family names of the Jewish lives lost during the Nazi extermination. You will end this fascinating and deeply thought-provoking tour with a guided visit inside the magnificent New Synagogue, one of the great architectural marvels of Berlin, and restored after its desecration by the Nazis on Kristallnacht.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Discover the inspiring and moving history of the Jewish Community in Berlin on this private walking tour of the memorials and monuments to the persecution and heroism of the Jews through the centuries, from medieval burnings to the Holocaust. On your private walking tour, your guide will talk you through the history of the Jewish Community in Berlin. See St Mary’s Church, the Block of Women sculpture, the Old Jewish Cemetery, now restored after it was desecrated by the Nazis, the Missing House, the Anne Frank Centre, and the Stolpersteins – or stumbling stones – brass squares embedded in the pavements, and inscribed with the family names of the Jewish lives lost during the Nazi extermination. You will end this fascinating and deeply thought-provoking tour with a guided visit inside the magnificent New Synagogue, one of the great architectural marvels of Berlin, and restored after its desecration by the Nazis on Kristallnacht.
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Stop At: St. Mary’s Church, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 8, 10178 Berlin Germany
Explore St Mary’s Church near Alexanderplatz – wherein 1243 a number of Jews were accused of stealing the Holy wafers and burned at the stake.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt, Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin Germany
Discover the Museum Blindenwerkstatt – a 1940s factory where Otto Weidt, a broom maker hid his deaf and blind Jewish employees. He is known as the ‘unsung Schindler’ who protected his Jewish workforce from Nazi persecution.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Anne Frank Zentrum, Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin Germany
Visit the fascinating and moving Anne Frank Centre.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: The Missing House, Große Hamburger Str., 10115 Berlin, Germany
Stop at The Missing House memorial: a huge gap between two sets of apartments, with plaques showing the names of those who lived at the house which was destroyed by a ferocious bombardment during World War II.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn, Große Hamburger Str. 27, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Walk by the Jewish high school, Jüdisches Gymnasium, named for Moses Mendelssohn whose burial can be seen in the Old Cemetery.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Str. 28-30, 10117 Berlin, Germany
End with a guided tour of the magnificent New Synagogue of Berlin – built in the 19th Century and one of Berlin’s most beautiful architectural monuments. It was very nearly destroyed by Nazi arsonists during the November 9th pogrom – known as Kristallnacht.
Duration: 30 minutes
