What was Jewish life like before and during the Nazi dictatorship? How did discrimination, exclusion, persecution and extermination manifest in practice?  How did Germany develop after the Second World War? What is life like today?

These and other questions were part of this trip, which led a Jewish family from New York to Berlin, Potsdam and Leipzig. There were general city tours as well as visits to the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum about Nazi Germany’s war of extermination against the Soviet Union, the Holocaust Memorial and various sites of Jewish life, as well as the Deutsches Technik Museum Berlin (German Museum of Technology) and a visit to the Chameleon Theater.

In Potsdam, the Prussian palaces and gardens were on the program and in Leipzig we dealt with the time around 1989, the Peaceful Revolution, and German reunification and, among other things, visited the Museum in the Round Corner about the Stasi activities in the GDR and Leipzig.