Informations and impressions for the upcoming 2016 spring break trip to Berlin

1. IDIS 350 m & 350 r
BERLIN

2. DATES
• 2/27/2016 – 3/6/2016
• Two courses (can be taken concurrently):
• IDIS 350m – Holocaust and Memory (meetings
mostly in the afternoon)
• IDIS 350 r – German Art and Culture (meetings
mostly in the mornings + two concerts)

3. ACCOMODATIONS
• Hotel Aletto, Kudamm

4. ACCOMODATIONS
• Hotel Aletto, Kudamm

5. ACCOMODATIONS
• Hotel Aletto, Kudamm

6. A WEEK IN BERLIN
Date Holocaust & Memory Course Art and Culture Course Evenings
2/28/2016 Arrival Berlin-Tegel
Walking tour of Berlin
Arrival Berlin-Tegel
Walking tour of Berlin
Welcome
Dinner
2/29/2016 Jewish Museum Museums Island (National
Gallery)
3/1/2016 German Historical Museum
Great Synagogue
German Historical Museum Concert /
Theater
3/2/2016 House of the Wannsee Conference Liebermann House @ Wannsee Dinner
3/3/2016 Former Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen (all-day excursion) Concert /
Theater
3/4/2016 Museum on grounds of GESTAPO
headquarters
GDR Museum Farewell
Dinner
3/5/2016 Flight Berlin-Washington

7. WELCOME DINNER GASTHAUS KROMBACH

8. HOLOCAUST AND MEMORY COURSE
IDIS 350m

9. ROSENSTRASSE MEMORIAL

10. MEMORIAL FOR THE MURDERED JEWS OF
EUROPE

12. JEWISH MUSEUM

13. GREAT BERLIN SYNAGOGUE

14. GERMAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM

15. GERMAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM

16. HOUSE OF THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE

17. HOUSE OF THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE

18. HOUSE OF THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
“There is no more Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw.”

19. SACHSENHAUSEN

20. TOPOGRAPHY OF TERROR
• Site of the
former Gestapo
Headquarters
• Ruins and new
museum
building

21. TOPOGRAPHY OF TERROR

22. ARTS AND CULTURE COURSE
IDIS 350 r

23. NATIONAL GALLERY

24. NATIONAL GALLERY
• cv

25. BODE MUSEUM
• cv

26. BODE MUSEUM

27. BERLIN CONCERT HOUSE

28. BERLIN CONCERT HOUSE

29. LIEBERMANN HOUSE AT WANNSEE

30. LIEBERMANN HOUSE WANNSEE

31. GDR MUSEUM

32. GDR MUSEUM

33. FAREWELL DINNER AT THE TV TOWER

34. MORE IMPRESSIONS OF BERLIN
Explore Berlin on your own

35. STREET ART

36. MEMORIAL FOR THE VICTIMS OF WAR AND
VIOLENCE

37. LEFTOVERS OF THE BERLIN WALL

38. REICHSTAG BUILDING (SEAT OF PARLIAMENT)

39. REICHSTAG BUILDING (SEAT OF PARLIAMENT)

40. REICHSTAG BUILDING (SEAT OF PARLIAMENT)

41. CHANCELLERY

42. PRICE
• $3119.00
• Included:
• flights
• transfers to Dulles from campus
• accommodations (double room)
• food
• entrance fees