Otto Weidts museum

Day 3 began at the Kilkenny pub in central pub to watch England play New Zealand in the semi final of the rugby World Cup. The pub was packed with mainly England fans and we sat outside watching it with a German commentary, and the game couldn’t have been better for us.
Next was a walk and visit to the Otto Weidts museum, where this German brush maker employed mainly blind and deaf Jews who he managed to protect for some time from persecution and deportation by saying they were essential to the war effort. Most were finally imprisoned but he had a secret room where some he hid the museum is on the workshop site and you can see the windowless small room which is unchanged since the war.
The afternoon was a Jewish walking tour with Sam & Sarah as our guides, a look at Check Point Charlie, followed by a visit to the Topography of Terror which is a museum on the site of the Gestapo and SS offices. It’s incredibly shocking and moving and tells the story of Berlin from 1933 to 1945 through photos and documents.
Dinner tonight was at Katz Orange and some lovely fine dining.