The Jewish Cemetery and the Missing House

The memorial of the Jewish cemetery and the Missing House, in Berlin

This place of memory evokes the oldest Jewish cemetery of Berlin and the memory of the departed inhabitants. The Berlin audio-guided tour stops here, with respect, to evoke this moving site, a witness of the darkest hours of the history of the city.

The memory of the departed

This place of memory is composed of two moving elements, in the district that sheltered the oldest Jewish cemetery of Berlin. There you first see a statue representing a group of people, adults and children with emaciated faces and lost gazes, which recalls with gravity the tragic fate of the Jewish community under the Nazi regime and the deportation. Not far away, the Missing House evokes, by a void left in a row of buildings, a destroyed building and the inhabitants who lived there, with their names inscribed in memory. This site invites to remembrance and contemplation.

What to see

Here you discover, with respect, the statue representing a group of people with a lost gaze, recalling the fate of the Jewish community, and the Missing House evoking the departed inhabitants, in a spirit of contemplation. This place of memory is a moving witness of the history of Berlin. It is a stop of memory to be discovered with respect.

Practical information

The memorial of the Jewish cemetery and the Missing House lie in the historic district of Berlin, reachable on foot and by public transport. They are open-air places of memory, freely accessible from the public space. It is best to behave there with calm and respect, out of regard for the memory of the departed.

What does this place of memory in Berlin commemorate?

The memory of the Jewish community of Berlin, of the oldest Jewish cemetery of the city and of the inhabitants who disappeared under the Nazi regime, through a statue and the Missing House.

Where is this memorial in Berlin?

In the historic district of Berlin, in Germany.