Jewish History of Berlin - Half-Day Tour

Once upon a time in Berlin lived one of the wealthiest and most educated Jewish communities of Europe with famous characters such as the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, grandfather of the composer Felix Mendelssohn, or Albert Einstein. Let's discover together how this community not so well-seen thrived financially and intellectually through the centuries until an abrupt stop in 1933. Let me explain to you how antisemitism, which is a very old prejudice and hatred in Europe, destroyed a community and also an entire country. It is important to understand the roots of this hatred and how it was used by the Nazis toward people who only wanted one thing, being assimilated and considered as Germans like everybody else. I will bring you to the most moving place for me in Berlin, the train platform 17 in the Grunewald station, from where thousands of Berliner Jews were sent to their death in camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is the last track of their life in the German capital. Let's remember them.