JEWISH HERITAGE – JEWISH TRAILS IN THE CITY
In the “Mitte” district you can visit the New Synagogue which was built during the so called “foundation time”. Those were the years of the foundation of the German Empire and Berlin became it´s capital in 1871. Among the hundreds of thousands of people streaming into the city, there were tens of thousands of Jews among them, carrying good hope to become well accepted members of the fast growing Berlin community. The synagogue nowadays houses the Centrum Judaicum and besides the temple, it has a museum about the history of the site.
Very close by, there is the site of the former school of Moses Mendelssohn, from where the ideas of the Jewish Enlightenment ( Haskalah ) were spreading out. Europe´s second largest Jewish Cemetery from 1880 is located in Berlin Weissensee and contains approximately 115,000 graves. In September 2007 the never destroyed Synagogue in Rykestrasse was reopened again.
This tour will include the visit of "TRACK SEVENTEEN", the train station from where most of the Berlin Jews were deported into the many concentration camps all over Europe. Here we find 3 memorials. Additionally, the following sites may be visited as well: HOUSE of the WANNSEE CONFERENCE ( "Final Solution" ) and the Museum and Memorial of the former CONCENTRATION CAMP SACHSENHAUSEN in the north of Berlin.
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