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Resisting the Holocaust — Berlin's Hidden Heroes
5(22 reviews)Berlin, Germany
3hDurationEnglishOffered inMobile ticketTicketNot includedPickupWheelchair accessibleAccessibilityEasyLevel
About this experience
Join a three-hour expert-led walking tour that delves into Berlin's former Jewish quarter, highlighting acts of resistance during the Holocaust. Participants will visit significant sites such as the New Synagogue, preserved by a police officer during Kristallnacht, and Otto Weidt's Workshop, where a factory owner safeguarded his blind and deaf Jewish employees from the Gestapo. The tour also covers the Women's Protest at Rosenstrasse, the only successful mass protest against a Nazi deportation order, and the Trains to Life, Trains to Death memorial at Friedrichstrasse station. The tour accommodates a maximum of 15 guests and focuses on discussion rather than presentation. This experience is suited for those interested in WWII history and personal stories of resistance.
Itinerary
1
Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
Start at the symbolic heart of Berlin's pre-war Jewish community. Learn how this majestic building, nearly destroyed during Kristallnacht, was saved by a local police officer who refused his orders.
2
Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
tand outside the workshop where Otto Weidt spent years protecting his blind and deaf Jewish workers — falsifying documents, bribing Gestapo officials, and creating hiding places. One of Berlin's most extraordinary stories of individual resistance.
3
Lustgarten
This cluster of buildings on Museum Island traces the transformation of public space under the Nazi regime — from civic and cultural institutions into instruments of propaganda and state control.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.
4
Neue Wache
Germany's central memorial to the victims of war and tyranny. A single sculpture. An empty room. The silence here is deliberate.
5
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".
6
Trains To Life Trains To Death
End the tour at Friedrichstrasse station — at the memorial to the Kindertransport children. The same station that sent children to safety sent others to their deaths. This is where the question asked at the start of the tour comes back around. Designed by sculptor Frank Meisle, himself among those rescued by the Kindertransport travelling from here to England in 1939.
What's included / not included
Expert Tour GuideExclusive Small Group Tour‘Then & Now’ photographs & MapsAccessible Tour
Food and drinksHotel pickup and drop-off
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Accessibility and comfort
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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