The place from which most of the Berlin Jews were deported was Moabit goods station. It was also known as Putlitzstrasse station, Quitzowstrasse station or just Moabit station. Located in the north of the district, […]
By the time the deportations began, about one third of all Jews had managed to flee out of Germany. In Berlin, the number of Jews went down by more than half, from around 160,000 to […]
There is little information about Heilige-Geist-Kirche during the Nazi regime. One publication says that church resistance developed slowly here and soon tailed off. In 1939, there was an ‘emergency congregation’, but only one percent of […]
You are now outside Turmstrasse 21 in front of the former main entrance to Moabit Hospital, which was closed in 2001. In 1872, city councillor Rudolf Virchow had barracks for a provisional plague hospital built […]
Kurt Tucholsky was born in this street on the right at number 13, in 1890. There’s a memorial plaque to him. Tucholsky was a journalist and writer, as well as temporary co-editor of the weekly […]
You heard a few things about the big synagogue in Levetzowstrasse at the start of this walk. There were however another two synagogues and plans for construction of a fourth, more orthodox synagogue in this […]
In front of the subway station, look towards the right side of the street at Alt-Moabit 85. This is where Margarethe Strauch used to have her business – although her real name was different. We […]
How did the congregation and ministers of Christian churches react to the persecution of Jewish fellow citizens?Rejection of democracy, exaggerated nationalism, and religiously founded anti-Semitism were as common among Christians as other groups, and the […]
In Moabit, there was resistance against deadly anti-Semitism and persecution during the Nazi Reich. For example, many persecuted Jews were hidden in people’s homes. Under the conditions at the time, this was already extremely risky, […]
Once airplanes had been invented, it became part of war strategy to terrorise enemies’ civilian populations with massive bomb drops. The idea is that they are supposed to turn against their own government. To disguise […]
