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Discover Berlin’s Jewish Quarter through the eyes of people who are active in Jewish life in Berlin. All of our guides are academics, who have spend a long time on research concerning the history of Berlin’s Jewish history. A comprehensive walking tour of the area around Hackescher Markt, with stories from the early beginnings in the Middle Ages to these days.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Discover Berlin’s Jewish Quarter through the eyes of people who are active in Jewish life in Berlin. All of our guides are academics, who have spend a long time on research concerning the history of Berlin’s Jewish history. A comprehensive walking tour of the area around Hackescher Markt, with stories from the early beginnings in the Middle Ages to these days.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Denkmal alte Synagoge, Rosenstraße, 10178 Berlin, Germany
We shall see the site of the oldest synagogue in Berlin, which will give us a chance ti discuss the early beginnings of the Jewish settlement in Berlin.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Denkmal Rosenstraße, Rosenstraße 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany
The site of the women’s protest from Rosenstrasse, where gentile women protested for the release of the Jewish husbands.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hackesche Höfe, Rosenthaler Str. 40, 10178 Berlin, Germany
The courtyards where eastern European Jews, who immigrated to Berlin at the turn of the 20th Century used to live.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt, Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin Germany
Visit the museum and hear about the rescue project of a German man called Otto Weidt. He risked his like to save his Jewish employees.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Memorial Jewish Cemetery, Große Hamburger Str. 26, 10115 Berlin, Germany
The old Jewish cemetery where among others Mosses Mendelssohn was buried.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Missing House, Grosse Hamburgerstrasse 16, 10115 Berlin Germany
Memorial by the artist Christian Boltanski
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Str. 28 – 30, 10117 Berlin Germany
See the Synagogue and hear about its history.
Duration: 15 minutes
