Memorials

Groups mostly have to apply beforehand! Free entrance.

Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Holocaust-Mahnmal)

South of the Brandenburger Tor
Ort der Information (exhibition): Cora-Berliner Straße 1, Mitte ✆ 74 07 29 29, www.stiftung-denkmal.de

The monument in remembrance of the Jews that were killed in Europe, was inaugurated in 2005 and is located south of the Brandenburger Tor. The 2751 steles made of grey slate are designed by architect Peter Eisenman from New York. The monument immediately grew into a touristic attraction in the capital. The field full of steles wants to drive the visitors to an individual confrontation with the extent of the Holocaust. The exhibition in the underground ‘Ort der Information’ remembers the victims, among other things by telling typical life and family stories, and it gives an image of the extermination camps.

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Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

Genslerstraße 66
Tram 5, 6, 7, 15, 17; bus 256
✆ 98 60 82 30, www.stiftung-hsh.de

Tours Mo-Fr 11am and 1pm, Sa-Su 10am-4pm
Through the band ex-prisoners lead the visitors through the former house of detention from the Ministry of Counter Intelligence. They tell you about the living circumstances and the interrogation methods of the Counter Intelligence Service of the DDR.

Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (Memorial of the German Resistance)

Stauffenbergstrasse 13-14, Tiergarten
Bus M29
Tel. 26 99 50 00

Monday-Friday 9am-6pm, Thursday till 8 pm Saturday/Sunday/Holidays 10am-6pm

Permanent exhibition in the historic "Bendlerblock" about the resistance against the nazis. Bendlerblock was the headquarters of the German Army. Monument remembering the victims of nazism that were shot here on 20 July 1944.

• Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Memorial to the Wannsee Conference)

Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58, Zehlendorf
Bus route 114 from S-Bahn station Wannsee
Tel. 8 05 00 10
www.ghwk.de

Monday-Sunday 10am-6pm,

Permanent exhibition about the Wannsee Conference in 1942, where the genocide of the Jews was finalised.

• Information and documentation center Berlin of the federal representatives for the files of the DDR-security service Stasi
   

  • Mauerstraße 38, Mitte
    U 12 Mohrenstraße, U 6 Französische Straße
    Tel 23 24 79 51, www.bstu.de
    Mo-Sa 10am-6pm
    ’Stasi – the exhibition’ informs about the control and spy system of the DDR and shows how the secret service functioned.

   

• Neue Wache
   

  • Unter den Linden 4

  • Bus 100, 200

  • This was Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s very first state assignment (1816). Heinrich Tessenow reconstructed the building in 1931 as a memorial for the fallen of the First World War. Back in GDR times it was dedicated to "the victims of fascism and militarism". Today it is known as "the central memorial to the victims of war and dictatorship".

   

• Gedenkstätte Plötzensee
   

  • Am Hüttigpfad, Charlottenburg

  • Bus 123

  • www.gedenkstaette-ploetzensee.de

  • Daily 9am-5pm, in the winter until 4pm
    Between 1933 and 1945, 2891 people were executed here, 86 of them had something to do with the failed attack on Hitler on July 20, 1944.

   

• Topographie des Terrors

M 2 Potsdamer Platz, M 6 Kochstraße

Tel 25 48 67 03, www.topographie.de

Daily May - Sept 10am - 8pm. Oct-April 10 am - 6pm

 

Documentation and exhibition about the nazi terror and crimes. The site is the Prinz-Albert-Gelände, which from 1933 to 1945 was the Gestapo and SS Headquarters. The main office of the security police (SD) was housed here as well.

 

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