Scheunenviertel Jewish Heritage

The Rosenstraße memorial consists of several upright, jagged blocks of red sandstone that stand in the middle of a small public square. In nineteen forty-three, the Gestapo arrested the remaining Jewish men in Berlin who were married to…

The Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt features a faded, hand-painted sign in the courtyard of a Rosenthaler Strasse apartment block. Otto Weidt owned this brush and broom workshop, where he employed mostly blind and deaf Jewish workers…

The Missing House at Grosse Hamburger Strasse fifteen is a narrow gap between two apartment buildings. Christian Boltanski created this site in nineteen ninety by researching the former residents who lived here before the war. He traced…

The Große Hamburger Straße Jewish Cemetery occupies a narrow, quiet lot in the center of Berlin. Its most distinct feature is the headless statue of Moses Mendelssohn standing near the entrance, a survivor of the site's destruction.…

The Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn occupies a cream-colored building on Grosse Hamburger Strasse with a wide, arched entrance. The school stands on the site of the former Jewish Boys' School, which opened in eighteen sixty-two. In…

A white-painted room, empty except for a single wooden chair placed in a corner, sits below street level at the corner of Koppenplatz. Karl Biedermann designed this memorial in nineteen ninety-six to mark the site of the former synagogue…

The New Synagogue features a massive, shimmering golden dome that dominates the skyline of Oranienburger Strasse. When it opened in eighteen sixty-six, its Moorish Revival style and capacity for three thousand worshipers signaled the…