Berlin, Germany
Coordinates: 52°31' N, 13°24' E
Touring Jewish Berlin
Our thanks to Barbara Algaze, L.A. for the idea and the info
New Synagogue, Berlin (Neue Synagoge) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Synagogue,_Berlin
Address: Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 88028300
The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") was built 1859–1866 as the main synagogue of the Berlin Jewish community, on Oranienburger Straße. Because of its splendid eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, it is an important architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century in Berlin.
Centrum Judaicum Berlin: www.cjudaicum.de
Web page for their archives: http://www.centrumjudaicum.de/cj-archiv/
Phone number: +49 30 88028-425 or -426.
e-mail is archiv@cjudaicum.de
Google Translation from their home page: The archive of the New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum is continuously built up since 1990. Currently, it covers some 400 linear meters of archival and collection, 2,500 microfilms and microfiches about 10,300. The archive is interested in further sources on the history of Jewish communities, associations, foundations in Germany and discounts, as well as larger papers belonging with family and business papers.
The Jewish Museum in Berlin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum,_Berlin
Address: Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 25993300
Weißensee Cemetery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fensee_Cemetery
Juedische Gemeinde zu Berlin, Friedhofsverwaltung Weissensee
Herbert-Baum-Str. 45, 13088 Berlin, Germany
Fax number is 49 - 30 - 92 508 33
Telephone number is +49 – 30 – 92 533 30
Call before you go as they are closed on all major Jewish holidays and many of the minor ones as well.
Topography of Terror (German: Topographie des Terrors): http://www.topographie.de/ Address: Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 2545090
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topography_of_Terror
The Topography of Terror is an outdoor and indoor history museum in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Niederkirchnerstrasse, formerly Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, on the site of buildings which during the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 were the headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS, the principal instruments of repression during the Nazi era.
Rykestrasse Synagogue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rykestrasse_Synagogue
Germany's largest synagogue is located in the Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood in the Pankow borough of Berlin. Johann Hoeniger built the synagogue in 1903/1904. It was inaugurated on 4 September 1904, on time for the holidays of and around Rosh haShana. The synagogue stands off the street alignment and is reached by a thoroughfare in the pertaining front building.
Address: Rykestraße 53, 10405 Berlin, Germany
Opened: September 4, 1904
Destruction date: November 9, 1938
Architectural style: Romanesque Revival architecture
Phone: +49 30 880280
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe
Also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold.
Address: Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Opened: May 12, 2005
House of the Wannsee Conference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference
Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58, D-14109 Berlin
Phone: +49-30 - 80 50 01 0
Fax: +49-30 - 80 50 01 27
E-Mail: info(at)ghwk.de
Open daily 10.00 am - 6.00 pm; last admission 5.45 pm
The Wannsee Conference (German: Wannseekonferenz) was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on
20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference, called by director of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office; RSHA) SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered
Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp
Address: Straße der Nationen 22, 16515 Oranienburg, Germany
Phone:+49 3301 2000 (It is a day trip located on the outskirts of Berlin.)
Sachsenhausen ("Saxon's Houses", German pronunciation: [zaksənˈhaʊzən]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950 (See NKVD special camp Nr. 7). The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
Jewish walking tours of Berlin, from the web at:
Jewish Berlin Tour 2014 - - www.your-berlin-city-guide.de/
Experience Berlins Jewish Heritage- Your English-Speaking Local Guide
Jewish Guide Berlin - Jewish Past and Present - www.milkandhoneytours.com/
Individual tours - Berlin Walking Tours - viator.com
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Accompanied by an expert guide, Berlin's Jewish history will come alive on this fascinating walking tour. You'll visit all the major sites and buildings associated ...
Jewish-Berlin.com: everything Jewish in Berlin - www.jewish-berlin.com/
Information and tours in English and Hebrew about Jewish life and Judaism in Berlin and Germany.
Eastern European Tours - https://plus.google.com/117176000063093486463/about?gl=us&hl=en
Herthaplatz 6, 13156 Berlin, Germany
+49 170 2244699
Berlinwalks- The Original English Sightseeing & Walking ... www.berlinwalks.de/
Berlin Walks - the Original English language guided walking tours. Discover the ... Stroll through the old Jewish quarter, home to a revitalized Jewish community.
Berlin Jewish Tours - www.berlinjewish.com/
Jewish Berlin Tours: Guided Tours in Berlin. Berlin Tour Guide. Jewish Tour Guide. Kosher in Berlin. Synagogues in Berlin. Jewish Cruise Tours in Berlin.
Jewish Berlin : Destruction & Rebirth - Insider Tours - www.insidertour.com/tours.php/cat/27/id/73/title/Tourdetails
Insider Tour Berlin – cutting edge English language walking tours since 1996. See all the main sites and hidden Berlin accompanied by a riveting narrative from our brilliant professional guides.
Berliner “Hop on/Hop off” bus tours
Maps
Districts and Neighbourhoods
Berlin is divided into twelve boroughs (Bezirke), each with its own mayor and council. Each borough consists of a number of neighbourhoods (Stadtteile), which have no administrative function but which residents can identify more easily with.
Note: until 2001 Berlin had 23 boroughs, which have been merged into the current twelve to reduce adminstation costs.
The boroughs are, in alphabetical order:
