Berlin Synagogue

Seeing the spires of the Berlin Synagogue was not among the highlights most of us noted; it seemed more to be an interesting sidelight. But when we got there, when we found that as many as 3,000 persons attended services in the massive building during the 1930s, and when we saw the significant security force provided by the Berlin Police, we were glad we had seen it.

The congregation was wiped out, of course, during the Holocaust, and the Synagogue is now a memorial, not a place of worship, but certainly a worthwhile stop during a tour of Berlin.

The final stop on the tour was outside Berlin, in Oranienburg. Students of the Holocaust will no doubt recall that this was the location of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, the subject of the next post.