An exploration of hundreds of years of history – tenacity, innovation, liberalism, dynamism, vibrancy, as well as persecution and recovery – in the city which is cited as having the world’s fastest-growing Jewish community outside Israel.
On this tour, let’s visit:
the site of Berlin’s first synagogue and first Jewish cemetery
the winding streets of the old Jewish quarter
the grave of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn
buildings which housed Jewish-run department stores a century ago
numerous ‘stumble stone’ monuments to those persecuted in the Nazi era
the former broom-making workshop for blind employees of Otto Weidt, ‘Berlin’s Schindler’
Berlin’s first Jewish schools
the ‘Kristallnacht’ memorial
the home of Europe’s first female rabbi, Regina Jonas
the monument to the 1943 uprising by women in defense of their Jewish husbands
the New Synagogue with its spectacular golden domes
