by finn ballard | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog
Who knows the full name of this Holocaust monument in Berlin Mitte?
by finn ballard | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog
I would like to recommend the movie, ‘The Invisibles’ by Claus Raefle from 2017. It’s a part documentary, part dramatisation film that depicts the fates of some of the approximately 7000 Jewish Germans who went into hiding in Berlin during WWII....
by finn ballard | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog
On tour in the Jewish quarter today and saw many new ‘stumble stones’ (plaques dedicated to Holocaust victims, usually at their former residences) with floral tributes. Although the stones almost always describe deportation and murder, do note ‘Oskar Adler, born 1902,...
by finn ballard | Feb 1, 2018 | Blog
Last September, I had a marvellous chance to visit Germany’s largest synagogue (on Rykestrasse, Berlin) with a Holocaust survivor.
by finn ballard | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
What a lovely morning tracking family history in West Berlin’s Bavarian quarter!
