Two Streets and a Synagogue Urban Encounters in Nazi Berlin

Professor Ralph Stern’s talk is entitled Two Streets and a Synagogue: Urban Encounters in Nazi Berlin.
One of the title’s ‘two streets’ is in central Berlin’s postwar ‘east’; a short walk from what was Gestapo Headquarters as well as what became Checkpoint Charlie and now, the new Jewish Museum. The other street is in the former ‘west’, existing today as it was built in the first years of the last century just off the Kurfürstendamm lined with Berlin’s famed cafes and cinemas. The Synagogue under discussion miraculously survived the 1938 November Pogrom largely intact, only to be repurposed as a deportation center for tens of thousands of Berliners sent to the ‘east’.