Discover Berlin's Jewish Heritage: Private Half-Day Walking TourPrivate Tour

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What makes this tour special

• Enjoy the personal attention of your private guide, who can tailor the tour route to your specific interests;
• Explore St Mary’s Church near Alexanderplatz – wherein in 1243 a number of Jews were accused of stealing the Holy wafers and burned at the stake;
• See the nearby Block of Women, a sculpture by Ingeborg Hunzinger and a monument to the courage of the non-Jewish women who protested against the Gestapo for the release of their Jewish husbands in 1943;
• 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;
• Pass by the fascinating and moving Anne Frank Centre;
• Explore the hauntingly beautiful Old Jewish Cemetery, Jüdischer Friedhof Große and learn about its terrible desecration and renewal after the war;
• See Willi Lammert’s sculpture “Jewish Victims of Fascism” which was placed next to a memorial stone, between the cemetery and the Jewish old people’s home that was commandeered by the Nazis in the 1940s, used as a prison for 55,000 Jews;
• 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;
• Walk by the Jewish high school, Jüdisches Gymnasium, named for Moses Mendelssohn whose burial can be seen in the Old Cemetery;
• 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.

Please note: the permanent exhibition of the Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt has to remain closed to individual visitors from January 1, 2023, to May 1, 2023, due to its fundamental renovation. A temporary exhibition is available for individual visitors.

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