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Jewish Berlin
City walk passing 350 years of Jewish life in Berlin
Before the Holocaust the main centre of Jewish life in Berlin was located in Spandauer Vorstadt, i.e. the area around the New Synagogue in Oranienburger Straße. Nowadays you find there again a Jewish cultural centre and several Jewish institutions and many traces of Jewish history. We start at the former site of the first Synagogue in Heidereutergasse which got destroyed in World War II. Close by we face a memorial and information about women’s protest from 1943 in Rosenstraße. In his workshop for blind people Otto Weidt could rescue some few Jewish persons and is honoured by a plate. The oldest Jewish cemetery is located in Große Hamburger Straße and nowadays again there exists a Jewish college. In Auguststraße still stands the former Jewish Hospital and a former Jewish Girl School serving now as a gallery building. At the end we can visit the refurbished part of the New Synagogue with its exhibition about former Jewish life in the quarter.
Meeting point: Entrance Courtyards Rosenthaler Straße 39; duration: two hours
