Jewish Heritage Tours
Germany

Berlin Jewish Heritage Sightseeing

City Tours of Jewish Berlin for Individuals and small groups

Are you planning your next vacation in Berlin? We can provide  individual tours of Jewish Berlin in private cars. We offer you a personal English speaking guide, trained to help you find your way through this exciting city. On our tours, we will show you places of both historical and contemporary importance for Jewish Berlin as well as the other major sights of the city if you wish.

Our bilingual guides are all either Jewish Studies majors or historians and very well acquainted with the city, its history and also the Jewish Community today. We work to customize our tours to your individual interests.

We will show you around, spend quality time with you and do everything we can to answer all of your questions, thus making sure your stay turns out as pleasant, interesting and eye-opening as possible.

Sample Itinerary for a half day tour (3-4 hours tour) of Jewish and overall Berlin

• Western shopping areas like the Kurfuerstendamm avenue and Tauentzien (with KaDeWe)

• Old and new Embassy area in the Tiergarten

• Cultural Forum with the New National Gallery, Philharmony, Paintings Gallery, National Library

• Amazingly designed modern architectural complexes around Potsdamer Platz

• Checkpoint Charlie and remains of the Berlin Wall

• Open door exhibit: ‘Topography of Terror’

• Gendarmenmarkt Square

• Brandenburg Gate with Paris Square (new architecture)

• Great boulevard Unter den Linden with classical sights like the States Opera, Humboldt University, the Old Armery, the Berlin Cathedral and Museums Island,

• Old quarter of Jewish Berlin, including the Old Jewish Cemetery with Moses Mendelssohn's grave, the Jewish High School, the former Jewish Girl’s School and Ahava House, the New Synagogue/Centrum Judaicum and the Leo-Baeck-House (former College for the Science of Judaism, now seat of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany and the Jewish Press Company)

• New government area  with the Reichstag, the New Chancellery, the House of Representatives (new architecture)

• Large Berlin inner city park Tiergarten with the street of the 17th of June, Victory Column, the Old Congress Center and the Castle Bellevue

• Several memorial sights throughout the city

• Jewish Community Center

Sample Itinerary for a day tour (5-8 hours tour) of Jewish and overall Berlin

• Gendarmenmarkt Square

• Great boulevard Unter den Linden with classical sights like the States Opera, Humboldt University, the Old Armery, the Berlin Cathedral and Museums Island

• Tour of the old quarter of Jewish Berlin, including the memorial place of the first synagogue of Berlin, the Memorial for the Women’s Protest in Rosenstrasse, the Old Jewish Cemetery with Moses Mendelssohn's grave, the Jewish High School, the former Jewish Girl’s School and Ahava House, the New Synagogue/Centrum Judaicum and the Leo-Baeck-House (former College for the Science of Judaism, now seat of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany and the Jewish Press Company)

• Brandenburg Gate with Paris Square

• New government area  with the Reichstag, the New Chancellery, the House of Representatives

• Large Berlin inner city park Tiergarten with the street of the 17th of June, Victory Column, the Old Congress Center and the Castle Bellevue

• Memorial Sight: former Synagogue/collection camp Levetzowstrasse

• Palais Charlottenburg, Egyptian Museum, Collection Berggruen (outside)

• Memorial Sight: Platform 17, one of the former deportation train stations in Berlin

• New Israeli Embassy

• Memorial Sight: ‘Places of Remembrance’ in the Bavarian Quarter

• Jewish Community Center

• Synagogues (outside)

• Western shopping areas like the Kurfuerstendamm avenue and Tauentzien (with KaDeWe)

• Embassy area in the Tiergarten

• Cultural Forum with the New National Gallery, Philharmony, Paintings Gallery, National Library

• Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind (outside explanations or with a guided tour inside)

• Checkpoint Charlie and remains of the Berlin Wall

• Open door exhibit: ‘Topography of Terror’

• Amazingly designed modern architectural complexes around Potsdamer Platz

• Construction sight of the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe

• Famous Friedrichstrasse

 Sample Itinerary for a 1 day trip from Berlin to Wannsee and Potsdam (4 – 6 hours)

• Guided visit of the exhibit in the house of the Wannsee Conference (»Wannsee Conference« was concerned with the organisation and implementation of "The Final Solution")

• Historical City of Potsdam, market place and old city gates

• Short lunch break

• Dutch quarter

• Alexandrowka, Russian quarter

• Sanssouci castle (outside) and gardens

• New Palais (outside) and gardens

• Guided visit of Cecilienhof Palace, venue of the Potsdam Conference in 1945 by the Allies 

One-day trips to Berlin for cruise passengers from Warnemuende

Does your cruise ship in the Baltic Sea stop for a day in Warnemuende / Rostock? Have you thought about spending a day in Berlin?

We offer you a splendid day trip to Berlin.
Warnemuende (near the city of Rostock) is a port 150 miles north of Berlin. We will arrange for a private minibus or bus to pick you up at the cruise ship dock in Warnemuende and drive you to Berlin. The trip to Berlin takes about 2 hrs. 45 min.

Unlike conventional train or bus connections offered by the cruise ships, our minibuses bring you faster and more comfortably to Berlin. This naturally allows you more touring time in the city.

Our guide will join you upon your arrival in Berlin. Furthermore, although the emphasis of the tour will be on Jewish sights, general sights can also be included if you so wish. The bus will then return you to your cruise ship in Warnemuende.

Our special package includes:

1. the transfer to Berlin in the morning and back to Warnemuende in the evening in a non-smoking private mini bus / bus with air conditioning.
2. a guided city tour of the most important contemporary and historical places of Jewish Berlin as well as other major sights in the city. All our trained German, English or Hebrew speaking guides are local residents and well acquainted with the city, its history and the Jewish Community of today.
3. a guided tour of the Jewish Museum, uniquely designed by Daniel Libeskind, with its permanent exhibition of 2000 years of Jews in Germany.

According to your interests, other places and sights can individually be added to your tour.

We also provide accommodations, transfers for individuals and groups

We arrange Jewish Heritage trips in other parts of Germany

Prices are on request, please email number of people, dates, what kind of hotels (deluxe or tourist class) and we will provide you a quote.

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