Resisting the Holocaust — Berlin's Hidden Heroes

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Berlin, Germany

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Overview

Most people know the broad facts of the Holocaust. What they don't know is what it took to resist it.

This expert-led walking tour explores Berlin's former Jewish quarter, tracing the destruction of a community and the extraordinary individuals who chose to fight back.

From the New Synagogue — saved on the night of Kristallnacht by a police officer who refused his orders — to Otto Weidt's Workshop, where a factory owner protected his blind and deaf Jewish workers from the Gestapo. From the Women's Protest at Rosenstrasse — the only successful mass protest against a Nazi deportation order — to the Trains to Life, Trains to Death memorial at Friedrichstrasse station.

Three hours. Maximum 15 guests. A discussion, not a presentation.

Berlin's only specialist WWII tour company. Expert historian guide.

Featured on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.

What's Included

  • Exclusive Small Group Tour
  • ‘Then & Now’ photographs & Maps
  • Accessible Tour
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
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Oranienburger Str. 36
10117 Berlin, Germany

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Georgenstraße 14/17
10117 Berlin, Germany

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 Judaicum

Start 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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10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Große Hamburger Straße

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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10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn

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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5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Memorial Jewish Cemetery

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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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt

tand 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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10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Denkmal Rosenstraße

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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Lustgarten

This 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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10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Zeughaus

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 Wache

Germany'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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10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Book Burning Memorial at Bebelplatz

On 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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10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Trains To Life Trains To Death

End 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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  • Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

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A: You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the adventure for a full refund. For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the adventure start time.If you cancel less than 24 hours before the adventure start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.Any changes made less than 24 hours before the adventure start time will not be accepted.Cut-off times are based on the adventure local time (CEST).This adventure requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund. Read more Apr 2025

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What's Included

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  • Exclusive Small Group Tour
  • ‘Then & Now’ photographs & Maps
  • Accessible Tour
  • Expert Tour Guide
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

Additional Info

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  • Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

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