🏨 Half-Day Holocaust and Nazi Resistance Tour in Berlin Activity

Half-Day Holocaust and Nazi Resistance Tour in Berlin

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Duration: 2 hours

Departs: Berlin, Berlin

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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Overview

Would you have joined the Resistance? Follow in the footsteps of brave men and women who fought back against the Nazis!

With a military historian, our journey highlights key historical events about Jewish migration to Berlin and the rise of anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany. The tour gives you a deeper understanding of what life was like for those who resisted the Nazis.

This is a unique opportunity to learn about some of history's most courageous people. You'll walk in their footsteps, hear their stories, and see where they lived and fought.

If you're looking for an educational and meaningful experience, this is it.

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Tour Highlights:
Visit Berlin's oldest Jewish landmarks
Deportation center
Otto Weidts factory - Berlin's Oscar Schindler
Burning of the Books and more!

What's Included

FREE hand and feet warmers in winter (Dec-Feb)

FREE rain ponchos throughout the year (In event of rain)

Traveler Information

ADULT: Age: 12 - 95

Additional Info

Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Public transportation options are available nearby
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Public transportation options are available nearby
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum

The starting point for this tour is the Neue Synagogue, New Synagogue. Constructed in 1866, the Synagogue was the largest and most magnificent in Berlin, a literal representation of the thriving 160,000 Berlin Jewish community members.
Saved from vandals during the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom.
The Synagogue remained in use until 1940 until being confiscated by the Army and used to store military uniforms. In November 1943, the Synagogue was severely damaged in an allied bombing raid. The main hall was torn down in 1958, partly rebuilt in 1988 and officially reopened in 1995. Today the Synagogue houses the Centrum Judaicum foundation, an institution for preserving Jewish memory and tradition.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Founded in 1779, the Jewish boy's school was the first Jewish school in Germany without fees. Although a Jewish institution the school was open to all faiths and promoted liberal Jewishness and accepted female students in 1931.
In the Fall of 1941, the deportation of Jews to the newly conquered territories to the East resulted in banning all Jewish schools. In 1942, the Reich Main Security office under the SS turned the building into a transit camp. The windows were barred, and Jews were crammed inside to await deportation.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Jewish Cemetery and Holocaust Memorial

Between 1672 and 1827, some 12,000 Jewish community members were buried here.
On the orders of the Gestapo, the SS destroyed the cemetery in 1943, smashing thousands of gravestones, throwing away remains and playing football with skulls.
In April 1945 burials once again took place. Almost 2500 German soldiers and Berlin civilians killed during the fighting or shot by the SS for hanging white flags from their windows are buried in mass graves.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt

Located in a hidden courtyard is Otto Weidt'd Workshop for the Blind. Weidt supported by his wife Else employed more than 30 blind and deaf Jewish workers between 1940 to 1945.
As tensions grew, Weidt endeavoured to protect his mostly blind and deaf employees from persecution and deportation, regularly bribing Gestapo officers and falsifying documents. Even going as far as to travel to Auschwitz concentration camp to break one of his employees out.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Lustgarten

The Lustgarten is framed on three sides by the Berlin Cathedral, the Altes Museum and the Zeughaus. Before the Nazi's, the Lustgarten was a favourite location for protests and speeches.
One week after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor 200,000 Berliner's protested the new Government.
Strict regulations imposed by the Nazi's over the coming month's restricted Germans' right to protest, hefty fines and arrests made protesting the Nazi regime very dangerous.
In 1934, the Lustgarten was paved over to make way for Nazi propaganda rallies, swearing-in ceremonies and military parades.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Neue Wache

The monument is a moving site in the middle of this busy city and stands as Germany’s central memorial for the victims of war and tyranny.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Book Burning Memorial at Bebelplatz

On 10 May 1933, members of the Nazi German Student Union and their professors gathered here in Bebel Platz adjacent the historical and prestigious Humboldt University. In a nationwide action “against the un-German spirit”. Students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of books that were deemed "un-German".

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Trains To Life Trains To Death

The almost life-size sculpture, Trains to Life – Trains to Death. The monument depicts two groups of Jewish children's contrasting fates during the Nazi era. The groups gaze in opposing directions representing the Jewish children whose lives were saved by the Kindertransport to England and the suffering of those deported to concentration camps.
Designed by sculpture Frank Meisle, himself among those rescued by the Kindertransporte travelling from here to England in 1939.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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