Private Jewish City-Tours Berlin

Tour available in:

Our passionate guides are experts in Berlin’s rich Jewish heritage and are part of today’s thriving Jewish community. Let our certified tour guides take you on journeys of discovery into the Jewish heritage of the German capital and throughout Europe. We want to provide you with personalized private tours of the city that reflect the heritage you wish to explore.

Berlin Private Tour Options:

Berlin Jewish Heritage Private Tours

Berlin City Highlights General Tours

Cold War Berlin Private Tours

Art and Architecture Private Tours

Sachsenhausen Camp Memorial Site

Potsdam Jewish Heritage and General Tours

Dresden Jewish Heritage and General Tours     

…and many more!

I still can’t believe I let my foot fall onto German soil, and I credit the positive experience to you, your expertise and mostly to your warmth and enthusiasm. There are so many things that are just now filtering into my consciousness and a million things I’d like to see again or explore more...perhaps, someday. Right now, I talk about you and your assistants, the memorials and absences, the museums...and the creativity and competitions that have formed the new Berlin. It’s enough!

Paula and Lou Silver

I am writing to say how good it was to spend time with you in Berlin. My experience was so varied and complicated. Being able to talk with you and share some of the emotional impact was of tremendous value to me.

Your thoughtful planning and knowledge showed me things I would not have learned about and your openness and honesty allowed me to speak honestly, which was a great relief. I was experiencing distress that I could not otherwise discuss. So thank you for the many ways you offered a safe harbor. With best wishes and my gratitude,

Alison Schwarz

The City of Berlin

Berlin is one of the most exciting cities in Europe! Why? No other major European city has in the last few decades re-defined, re-created and re-built itself to such an extent as Berlin. Until 1989, the city was cut in half by a wall. The main historical Jewish sites were on the eastern side of the city, the part of Berlin that was behind the Iron Curtain.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city has had to re-weave its two halves together; to accomplish this, world-renowned architects like Frank O. Gehry and I. M. Pei came and added their spectacular new designs to the changing landscape. This period of reconstruction produced a blossoming tourism industry, booming business development and a sophisticated art scene. However, perhaps the most significant change is that the once diminished Jewish Community of Berlin is becoming the fastest-growing Jewish community in Europe.

Once with the renaissance of Jewish life in Berlin, important historic sites such as the spectacular golden-domed New Synagogue have been renovated to their past grandeur. There has been construction of new Jewish landmarks and institutions of learning, such as the impressive Jewish Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind, and revitalization of Jewish culture through events such as the annual international Jewish Film Festival. Jewish life in Berlin is even more prevalent than one might realize at a first glance: there is very often a Jewish perspective to be found at sites of general interest like the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate.

Judaism in Berlin throughout the centuries has gone through several Golden Ages: the 18th century welcomed the Jewish Enlightenment heralded by Moses Mendelssohn, the 19th century gave birth to Reform Judaism through the contributions of scholars like Abraham Geiger, and the early 20th century saw outstanding personalities such as Leo Baeck, Kurt Weill and Albert Einstein further increase the community’s prestige.

As well as paying tribute to these inspiring periods of Jewish heritage, Berlin is a city where the losses of the Holocaust are keenly felt and stringently remembered.

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, next to the Brandenburg Gate, and dozens of other smaller but equally moving memorials make sure that the Holocaust is never forgotten.

The Jewish world is slowly realizing that there is still Jewish life in Berlin. Despite the division, there was a post-war Jewish cultural identity in Berlin that formed the bedrock of today’s thriving community. In Berlin, conscious reconstruction goes hand-in-hand with celebrating the renaissance of the community in all its facets: two Jewish newspapers, a Jewish theater, Jewish educational institutions and nine synagogues; Jewish heritage is all here once again in Berlin.

Let us give you an insider view into the Jewish heritage of Berlin!

For those travellers coming to Berlin on a cruise ship, we offer specially designed private tours to showcase the best this city has to offer in the short time you are here! We also offer private Jewish heritage tours specially designed for cruise ship passengers in St Petersburg, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Riga and Tallinn, and many more! Please contact us for more details.