Tells the Story of the Workshop. the Owner of the Small Factory, Otto

Nordufer Friedrich Krause BERNAUER STRASSE Ufer CHAUSSEESTRASSE Beusselstraße HEIDESTRASSE BEUSSELSTRASSE PERLEBERGER STRASSE MOABIT PRENZLAUER ALLEE Wein- TURMSTRASSE meister- Museum straße Turmstraße Otto Weidt’s Workshop INVALIDENSTRASSE ALT-MOABIT Hauptbahnhof for the Blind ALEXANDERPLATZ Hackescher Regierungsviertel Markt Spree Reichstag EN DEN LIND Brandenburger UNTER 7. JUNI Tor FRIEDRICHSTRASSE GROSSER STERN STRASSE DES 1 T I E R GAR TEN MITTE Landwehrkanal Bahnhof TIERGARTENSTRASSE LEIPZIGER STRASSE Zoologischer Kulturforum Garten Potsdamer Platz REICHPIETSCHUFER ORANIENSTRASSE KANTSTRASSE Gedächtniskirche LÜTZOWPLATZ STAUFFENBERGSTR. KREUZBERG SCHÖNEBERG The Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind Getting here tells the story of the workshop. The owner German Resistance Plötzensee of the small factory, Otto Weidt, employed Memorial Center and Memorial Center Silent Heroes Memorial Center mainly blind and deaf Jews here during U9 World War II. Various life stories tell of Bus M29 Turmstraße U-Bahn station, Otto Weidt’s eorts to protect his Jewish Bus stop Gedenkstätte then Bus 123 to bus stop Deutscher Widerstand Gedenkstätte Plötzensee workers from persecution and deportation. Approx. 3-minute walk He found places for some of them to hide. Bus M48, Bus M85 Bus stop Kulturforum S41, S42 One of these was on the premises of what Approx. 5-minute walk Beusselstraße S-Bahn station, is now the museum. then Bus 123 to bus stop Bus 200 Gedenkstätte Plötzensee Bus stop Tiergartenstraße Approx. 3-minute walk Approx. 5-minute walk U1, U3 Museum Otto Weidt’s Station Kurfürstenstraße Workshop for the Blind Approx. 10-minute walk S3, S5, S7, S9 U2, S1, S2, S25, S26 Station Hackescher Markt Station Potsdamer Platz Approx. 3-minute walk Approx. 10-minute walk U8 Station Weinmeisterstraße Approx. 3-minute walk Tram M1, M4, M5, M6 Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin-Mitte Tram stop Hackescher Markt Tel. +49-30-28 59 94 07 Approx. 3-minute walk [email protected] Opening hours Open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed on December 24 Free entry 10.2019 The German Resistance Memorial Center The Plötzensee Memorial Center The Silent Heroes Memorial Center is located at the historic site of the attempted commemorating the victims of National commemorates those people who supported coup of July 20, 1944. It provides information Socialism is a European site of quiet persecuted Jews during the Nazi dictatorship. on the entire breadth of resistance against remembrance. From 1933 to 1945, more The example set by these helpersoften National Socialism through a major permanent than 2,800 people unjustly sentenced to referred to as “silent heroes”shows that there exhibition and a variety of other activities. death by the National Socialist judiciary was in fact leeway for maneuvering to help The center’s goal is to show how individual were executed here. Today, the execution people at risk in Nazi Germany and the German persons and groups took action against the chamber is a memorial. The permanent occupied territories. The permanent exhibition National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to exhibition in the room adjoining it documents not only successes in saving Jews, 1945 and made use of what freedom of action commemorates all victims of the unjust but also attempts that failed. they had. Nazi justice system murdered here. Stauenbergstraße 13-14, 10785 Berlin-Mitte Hüttigpfad, 13627 Berlin-Charlottenburg- Stauenbergstraße 13-14, 10785 Berlin-Mitte Tel. +49-30-26 99 50 00 Wilmersdorf Tel. +49-30-26 39 238 22, Tel. +49-30-26 99 50 20 [email protected] Tel. +49-30-26 99 50 00 [email protected] [email protected] Opening hours Opening hours Mondays to Wednesdays, Fridays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Opening hours Mondays to Wednesdays, Fridays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. March until October daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. November until February daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed December 24 to 26, Closed December 24 to 26, Closed December 24 to 26, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day Free entry Free entry Free entry Braun Engels Gestaltung, Ulm Photos: Thomas Bruns (2), Engels, Braun Engels Gestaltung (6) Georg.

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