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Rates

Private Group (1 to 10 people) - 245€

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Duration

3 - 4 hours

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About

The tour starts at Hackescher Markt. Our first stop is Haus Schwarzenberg, where we’ll visit Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind. In it, Weidt tried his best to save Jews from deportation by deliberately employing them. For his efforts, Weidt was named “A Righteous Among The Nations” by Israel some years ago.) Next, we’ll criss-cross through what some 100 years ago was a working class district, yet now is one of Berlin’s most cutting edge neighbourhoods. Soon, we’ll reach the so-called Barn Quarter, where at the end of the 19th century many Jews from Eastern Europe used to get stuck on their to Hamburg, to eventually board a US-bound steamer. Winding our way through the narrow streets of the Barn Quarter – which now is lined with trendy shops and eateries – we’ll then each the then-called Spandauer Vorstadt where Berlin’s oldest Jewish cemetery is located (destroyed by the SS in 1943). Then, we’ll walk our way through this quaint neighbourhood until we reach Koppen Platz with its haunting Deportation Memorial.

From there, we’ll continue along Linienstrasse and Auguststrasse, where we’ll visit a former Jewish Girls’ School, now turned into one of Berlin’s poshest addresses for art and culinary delights, among which a kosher deli.

Crossing the famous Heckmann Höfe, we’ll soon reach the stunningly restored New Synagogue, which was badly damaged during WWII and now serves as a museum with an adjacent prayer room.

The tour ends here, with an option to have tea either at the Tadjik Tea Room, or the pretty coffeeshop Le Petit Bijou, in the newly restored Palais Simon.

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Meeting Point

Hackescher Markt, 10178 Berlin, Deutschland