July 4 -11, 2022
The city is our classroom. For teachers.
Give us eight days. We’ll change the way you teach.
(and bring comfortable shoes)
July 4 -11, 2022
This year, we're going to:
-explore Berlin’s most historic sites with top notch guides;
-discuss the city’s turbulent history with academics;
-meet with politicians, journalists, and activists;
- expand your knowledge base and technology skill set;
-all while you and other teachers gather primary and secondary sources to use in the lesson plans you'll write during special sessions set aside for that purpose;
-and you’ll form cross border networks and partnerships with other teachers.
Highlights this year
JEWISH BERLIN
You will:
- tour Berlin’s historic Jewish quarter
- discuss the rise of German Jewry
- tour the newly remodeled Jewish Museum
- attend Friday evening Shabbat services in Germany’s last 19th century choir-led service
- meet with today’s young Jewish community activists who will tell us about being Jewish in today’s Germany
THIRD REICH BERLIN
You will:
- discuss 20 January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference Center
- tour Sachsenhausen and engage with historians
- stop at Track 17, Grünewald station, where Berlin’s Jews were sent to their deaths
- read Centropa interviews of Kindertransport refugees in the Anhalter Bahnhof
- tour the Holocaust Memorial, the Topography of Terror (SS HQ) & Babelplatz (book burning site)
COLD WAR BERLIN
You will:
- visit the Soviet war memorial to those who fell in the Battle of Berlin
- tour the Berlin Wall memorial
- discover the Palace of Tears station
- walk through historical communist East Berlin sites
