Day: May 28, 2026

2026 Holocaust Studies Tour, Day 3: Memory Culture and Hospitality

Today we started off by looking for evidence of a culture of memory in the Hackescher Market section of Berlin. Here we found several Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), spotted some centers for potential exploration in the days to come (namely, an Anne Frank Center and the Otto Weidt Center), and briefly visited a Jewish Cemetery Memorial that was desecrated by the Nazi’s but restored for the purpose of visitation in 2008, albeit without the missing headstones. (The 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn is buried there.) We then met my friend and historian Christian Marx at the Trains to Life, Trains to

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