Expert Led Private Jewish Heritage Tour in Berlin

 

On this tour we will discover the 800-year history of the Jewish population in Berlin. We'll begin at the former site of the Old Synagogue to discuss the arrival of Jews to Berlin in the medieval period, and then make our way to the neighborhood once known as the Scheunenviertel (“Barn Quarter”). We'll find old traces of the cultural and social institutions that once made this neighborhood the center of Jewish life. We'll see memorials like the "Missing House", the Abandoned Room at Koppenplatz, which serves as a reminder of the Jews taken on Kristallnacht; and some of the city’s 1,400 Stolpersteine (“stumbling blocks”). We'll discuss resistance efforts when we visit the Otto Weidt Museum and Rosenstrasse Memorial. Our walk will finish at a site that emphasizes the complexity of Jewish history in Berlin and the efforts of contemporary German society to find appropriate means of commemoration: the New Synagogue in Oranienburger Strasse, with its beautifully reconstructed golden dome.