The streets around Hackescher Markt and their people: the women who stood up to the Gestapo in 1943, the policemen who stamped forged papers, the workshop where Otto Weidt hid blind workers, a family of four stones in the pavement, the world's first woman rabbi and the synagogue that wasn't destroyed by fire, whatever people tend to believe.
You start in Rosenstraße, where in the winter of 1943 families, mostly women, stood in the street and asked for their husbands and children back. Behind it stood Berlin's oldest synagogue. At Hackescher Markt, policemen from the local station warned people of raids; in the courtyards next door, a businessman got his own courtyards back without ever returning. At Rosenthaler Straße 39, Otto Weidt bribed the Gestapo to protect his blind and deaf workers, and Alice Licht, in all likelihood, threw a postcard from a train. You go on past the Aronsbachs' stones, the city's first Jewish cemetery, the missing house and Regina Jonas's plaque, and you finish beneath the golden dome of the New Synagogue, with its eternal light found among the rubble in 1989.
An outline of the walk. The full stories are in the app.
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Walking directions are based on mapped pedestrian routes. Check local access and signs; the route is not an accessibility guarantee. Times are approximate.
Berlin alternates broad avenues, courtyards and neighbourhoods with lives of their own. Walk each area slowly and use transport between them: several good walks make more sense than one marathon.
You start in front of Marx and Engels, who no longer face the way people say they do, and a Red Town Hall that isn't red because it's communist, and whose chronicle in stone was rebuilt from photographs lent by ordinary Berliners.
You start at the Neue Wache, in front of the mother sculpted by Käthe Kollwitz.
You start at the opera house an impatient king opened before it was finished, and at the cathedral where Bernhard Lichtenberg prayed for the persecuted until he was reported.
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No. Street walks and monument audio tours do not include admission tickets, transport or a guide accompanying you.
Download the audio in the app before heading out, then listen offline. Loading the online base map and calculating a new route from your location require a connection.
Every route includes Spanish and British English. The English version is adapted for English-speaking travellers, rather than translated word for word.
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