Scheunenviertel tours, things to do and tickets

Your focus for this 3-hour history tour will be the main sites of Berlin’s 19th and 20th century Jewish history and the districts of Spandauer Vorstadt and Scheunenviertel (known as the ‘Barn Quarter’) in Berlin-Mitte. Take in the graceful avenue Oranienburger Straße, where the magnificent New Synagoge was erected in 1866. Learn not only of the conflicts between German Jews and Non-Jews but of tensions between the mostly assimilated German Jewry and the so-called Eastern Jews (‘Ostjuden’) who filled Berlin in the 1920s after fleeing anti-Jewish violence in their homelands.

A 3 hour walking tour in Berlin, see the major Jewish sites of Berlin, such as the new and old synagogues, Scheunenviertel und Hackesche Höfe, the hero of Berlin - otto weidt museum,Jewish old Cemetery, holocaust memorial, Rossenstrasse demonstration memorial and the kids transport statue.

The story of the community since 1671 and till our days will be told, we will understand the influence of the Jews on the German culture and society and than how the Nazis tried to stop Jewish life in Germany. Fasicnating stories of love, hate and bravery during the war, of local berliners, Jews and not Jews.