Jewish Berlin

This tour focuses on the Jewish community in Berlin from early settlement to the Second World War. We’ll walk around courtyards in the former Barn Quarter in the Mitte district, getting an insight into the complex, loaded, and tragic Jewish history in Berlin. 

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We’ll see such highlights as the magnificent New Synagoge and the Old Jewish Cemetery,  where the Jewish enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn is buried. 

We’ll find out how a nurse saved over a hundred Jewish orphans from the Holocaust, how an owner of a small sewing supply store founded a department store empire, why the owner of a brushes and brooms workshop is honoured as one of the Righteous among the Nations, and how German women stood up to the nazis to protect their Jewish husbands.  

We’ll discover where the first ever female rabbi once lived and how one the most iconic expressionist poems was created. On our way, we’ll see various memorials such as the Stumbling Stones, the Missing House, and the Deserted Room.