The Bayerisches Viertel and Other Memorial Sites

11. Stolpersteine/ Stumbling Stones

Gertrud Kolmar’s Stolperstein is at Münchner Str. 18a in Berlin. A complete map of Berlin’s Stolpersteine is at the project’s site.

If you click on any of the locations in the map you can find the name and address of the memorialized person. Here is the link for Gertrud Kolmar’s father. Explore the ten residents of the Rosenthaler Vorstadt district and explore what may have caused their killers to seek them out. Remember to click on the English option in the website: Else Luft, Erna Herrmann, Ingrid Kropidlowsky, Hugo Schnurmacher, Fritz Heilscher, Heinz Bibergeil, Margareta Pohlmann, Ephraim Worrmann, Sophie Boroschek, Majub Bin Adam Mohamed.

12. Bayerisches Viertel

The memorial in the Bayerische Viertel displays signs that show the Nazi rules that precede the deportations to concentration camps. Describe how these rules regulated one day in the life of a Jew in Berlin. The website includes an app that lets you explore the Bayerische Viertel on your own.

13. Marie Jalowicz

Marie Jalowicz stated that “her helpers were the main reason that she could believe in her country again. Can you empathize with Marie Jalowicz’ decision to stay in Berlin after the Holocaust? A Young Woman Goes ‘Underground In Berlin’ To Escape The Holocaust.

14. Other Holocaust Memorial Sites in Berlin

Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of National Socialist »Euthanasia« Killings

Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime

Centrum Judaicum

Jewish Sites of Remembrance in Große Hamburger Straße

Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind

Gleis 17 Memorial – Berlin Grunewald

Orte des Schreckens sign on Wittenbergplatz

Der verlassene Raum on Koppenplatz

Herbert Baum block on Museumsinsel

15. Holocaust Memorial Museums outside Germany

a. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. Watch the video about Gretel Bergmann in the video on teaching about the Holocaust and sports and answer the questions at the end of the movie. 

b. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Among the many resources the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum contains a brief movie of Hitler at the Sportpalast, his favorite venue, where he thanks and appeals to his followers.