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Jewish Berlin
City Tour by bus or car
After emigration of Jewish Berliners in the Thirties and the murdering of Jewish community members staying in Berlin and Germany during the Third Reich a new Jewish community got re-established again in the city. The original historical sites of Jewish life are to be found mainly in Spandauer Vorstadt with the oldest cemetery of the Jewish community dating from 1672, the former Girl School, the Hospital, and the New Synagogue from 1866. The Holocaust Memorial is only one of many memorials in the city to commemorate the murdering of more than 6 million Jewish people. The tour Jewish Berlin leads to all main sites of Jewish life in former times and today, including a visit to the Jewish Museum and of Track 17 Memorial, from where trains were leaving to concentration camps.
Duration: five to eight hours, meeting point by arrangement
