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Resisting the Holocaust — Berlin's Hidden Heroes 20% OFF
Berlin, Germany, Europe
$42.23
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Overview
The Resisting the Holocaust walking tour in Berlin delves into the profound stories of resistance against Nazi oppression. This expert-led experience reveals the resilience of individuals within the city's former Jewish quarter.
- 🏛️ Start at the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin, the symbolic heart of the pre-war Jewish community, where a police officer heroically saved the building during Kristallnacht.
- 🕯️ Pause at the Stolpersteine – brass stones embedded in the pavement, marking the last known addresses of Holocaust victims, representing the largest decentralized memorial in the world with over 70,000 stones across Europe.
- 📚 Visit Berlin's first free Jewish school founded in 1779, which was transformed into a Nazi transit camp by 1942, and hear the poignant tale of its last headmaster and the fate of those detained there.
- ⚰️ Explore the cemetery where the Gestapo ordered the destruction of thousands of gravestones in 1943, and learn about the mass graves of German soldiers and civilians buried there after the fighting ended in April 1945.
- 🔍 Stand outside Otto Weidt's workshop, where he valiantly protected his blind and deaf Jewish workers by falsifying documents and creating hiding places, showcasing one of Berlin's most remarkable stories of individual resistance.
- 👩👩👦 Witness where German women staged a daring protest in 1943, successfully securing the release of their Jewish husbands, marking the only mass protest against a Nazi deportation order during the Third Reich.
- 🏛️ Discover the Lustgarten, a site that transformed from civic space to a venue for Nazi propaganda, including the significant protest by 200,000 Berliners against Hitler’s regime shortly after his appointment as Chancellor.
- 🪖 Visit the Zeughaus, Berlin's oldest building, where a failed assassination attempt on Hitler was planned, and learn about Major General Gersdorff's audacious plan to end the dictator's life.
- 🕊️ Reflect at the Neue Wache, Germany's central memorial dedicated to the victims of war and tyranny, where silence reigns in a powerful tribute.
- 🚉 Conclude the tour at Friedrichstrasse station, home to the Trains to Life, Trains to Death memorial, honoring the Kindertransport children and the stark contrast of safety and peril they faced.
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Resisting the Holocaust — Berlin's Hidden Heroes
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 3 hours
- Accessible Tour
- ‘Then & Now’ photographs & Maps
- Exclusive Small Group Tour
- Expert Tour Guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Food and drinks
Meeting point
Meet your guide in front of the old Post Office building. Look for the guide holding a blue umbrella.
Return details
The tour ends at S+U Friedrichstraße, Berlin. This a major train hub with easy easy connection throughout the city. If you need help reaching your next destination please ask your guide.
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Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum JudaicumStart 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.
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Stolpersteine — Stumbling Stones Pause at the brass stones embedded in the pavement, each marking the last known address of a Holocaust victim. Over 70,000 across Europe — the largest decentralised memorial in the world.
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Founded in 1779 — Berlin's first free Jewish school. By 1942 it had become a Nazi transit camp. Hear the story of its last headmaster and the fate of those held here before deportation.
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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.
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Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidttand 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.
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Stand where German women defied the Nazi regime in 1943 to save their Jewish husbands. For seven days they refused to leave. Their husbands were released. The only successful mass protest against a Nazi deportation order in the history of the Third Reich.Outraged, the wives of those detained numbering in the hundreds gathered to protest. Despite periodic threats of being shot if the women did not disperse the women would scatter briefly, only to return in larger numbers to continue protesting. As pressure mounted Goebbels authorized the prisoner's release.
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LustgartenThis 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.
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The magnificent Zeughaus is the oldest building along Unter den Linden constructed in 1730 as an artillery arsenal. On March 21, 1943, the Zeughaus was chosen to exhibit captured Soviet weapons. Major General Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, a member of the Wehrmacht resistance, was chosen to lead the exhibit. Despite 27 failed assassination attempts to kill Adolf Hitler. Gersdorff was resolute to succeed and agreed to blow himself up with the Führer. With two concealed Bristish clam mines, he planned to throw himself around Hitler in a death embrace that would blow them both up. A detailed coup d'état was in place and ready to go, learn what happens next on this tour.
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Neue WacheGermany's central memorial to the victims of war and tyranny. A single sculpture. An empty room. The silence here is deliberate.
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Book Burning Memorial at BebelplatzOn 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".
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Trains To Life Trains To DeathEnd 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.
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Resisting the Holocaust — Berlin's Hidden Heroes 20% OFF
Berlin, Germany, Europe
$42.23
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they redeem the gift voucher.
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