Educational Program and Guided Tours in November and December 2010

Public Tours for Adults

The following tours will take place in the months of November and December:

Saturdays

11 am Jewish Life and Traditions

3 pm Through the Museum in Seven League Boots

Please note: not on 13 November when the Jewish Museum Berlin will be closed

Sundays

11 am Jewish Life and Traditions (also at 3 pm in December)

3 pm Through the Museum in Seven League Boots

Mondays

6 pm Forced Laborers and Work Slaves. Tour through the special exhibition "Forced Labor"

6 pm Through the Museum in Seven League Boots

The following applies to public tours for adults:

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Price: 3 € plus admission fee (5 €, reduced rate 2.50 €; for special exhibitions 4 €, reduced rate 2 euros)

Please gather at the "Meeting Point" in the foyer on ground level of the Old Building

Further information and tour bookings (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 25 993 305 or fuehrungen@jmberlin.de

Public Tours for Children

Halakah and Braided Bread – What goes into the Shabbat-Basket?

Children’s Tour through the Permanent Exhibition

How did a Jewish merchant live 300 years ago? What did she pack in her suitcase when she went traveling? A prayer book, clothes, or even a mobile phone? On this stroll through the exhibition, our young visitors look at Jewish traditions and how they have changed in the course of the centuries. They have fun experiencing how it feels to wear a kippah, admire a real scroll, and sniff a besamim box full of spices.

When: 7 November and 5 December 2010, 11 am

Duration: approx. 1 hour

The Crazy Crooked House. Daniel Libeskind For Children

Why are the walls at the Jewish Museum Berlin at a slant? Why does a staircase lead to nowhere? Why don’t flowers blossom in the garden? Tailored to their age group, our young visitors receive a fun introduction to the architecture of Daniel Libeskind. Afterwards they can design their very own crazy fantasy house with building blocks, cardboard, paper, and other handcraft materials.

When: 21 November and 19 December 2010, 11 am

Duration: approx. 2 hours

The following applies to all public tours for children:

Price: 3 € including admission and handicraft materials

Please gather at the "Meeting Point" in the foyer on ground level of the Old Building

Further information and tour bookings (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 25 993 305 or fuehrungen@jmberlin.de

Children’s Hanukkah Program

Happy Hanukkah!

A Tour for Children of Five and Over

On this tour, the children learn about the Hanukkah miracle and what role the rededication of the temple and the little pot of oil played. How is Hanukkah celebrated today?

Which children’s dishes are prepared for the festival and how are the lamps lit? A small Hanukkah exhibition awaits us on the Children’s Island, where we can inspect the many interesting exhibits together. And to round off the tour, we have fun learning the dreidel game and making our very own Hanukkah souvenir.

When: 28 November 2010, 11 am and 2.30 pm

Saturday 4, 11, 18 and 25 December 2010, 2.30 pm

Sunday 5, 12, 19 and 26 December 2010, 2.30 pm

This tour can also be booked for kindergarten, vacation/afternoon care groups, and school groups (by appointment).

Hanukkah Quarrel at the Cohen’s

Jewish Hanukkah Marionette Show

Family festivals are not always harmonious at the Cohen’s either. How things go at the Cohen’s Hanukkah celebration and which miracles happened in Biblical Jerusalem can be seen in this special performance at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Monumental foam puppets, created and animated by Jewish artists from Berlin, take the audience on an imaginary journey accompanied by the extremely talkative goat, Golda, and the rather quiet Judah Maccabee. This funky, colorful production promises children great and small true insights and good entertainment.

When: 28 November 2010, 2.30 and 4 pm

Sunday 5, 12, 19 and 26 December 2010, 4.15 pm

Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium

Cost: 3 € (free admission at the opening of the Hanukkah Market on 28 November)

Hanukkah Shemozzle!

Hanukkah Fun for all the Family

Creativity and lots of exciting games will be the focus of our family afternoons. The temple has to be made kosher in a giant puzzle and our young visitors wander through the Judean desert to the temple in Jerusalem with the Hanukkah board game. Museum bingo is a fun way to learn new things and Judith and Jehudah Ziehmichan are waiting to be colored in and dressed!

When: 28 November 2010, 2 pm

Sunday 5, 12, 19 and 26 December 2010, 2 pm

Where: Glass Courtyard on ground level

Duration: 3 hours

Admission: free

"Alis wunderbarer Weg" (Ali’s wonderful path)

Reading for Children from 5 to 8 Years

Winter is just the time for listening to stories. In this reading, the Jewish Museum Berlin presents the book "Alis wunderbarer Weg" published in Turkish and German. In her book, the author and illustrator Shlomit Baris Tulgan combines a child’s search for God with the mystery of reading. Wall projections of fairytale illustrations will accompany the reading.

When: 4, 11 and 18 December 2010, 4 pm

Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium

Duration: 1 hour

Cost: 1,50 euros

Oil Press Workshop

Without the little oil lamp way back then, the temple would not have been lit for eight days and we would not celebrate Hanukkah today. In celebration of this miracle, Chabad rabbis show the children how kosher olive oil can be made with an oil press and then the Hanukkah lamps are lit with the pressed oil.

When: 5 and 12 December 2010, 3 pm

Where: at the Hanukkah Market

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Admission: free

Information and bookings (for non-journalists) for the Hanukkah children’s program on tel. +49 (0)30 25 993 305 or fuehrungen@jmberlin.de

Educational Program Surrounding the Special Exhibition "Forced Labor"

In the Tracks of Forced Laborers

Project day on Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin 1939-1945

For Adults and School Groups from Grade 9

The day commences with a tour through the Libeskind Building and a visit to the special exhibition "Forced Labor." In the afternoon, the group visits Berlin’s last largely preserved forced labor camp in Schöneweide. Alongside Italian military internees and Italian civilian workers, concentration camp prisoners and other forced laborers of different nationalities could be found here.

A cooperation with the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin Schöneweide

When: by appointment

Duration: 10 am to 4.30 pm

Cost: 3 € per head including admission fee for school students; 60 € flat rate for adult groups plus reduced admission fee of 2 € per head

Encounters with Jewish Former Forced Laborers

Workshop and Discussion with Contemporary Witnesses for Classes from Grade 9

Ruth Gumpel worked on the assembly line of Ehrich & Graetz in Berlin Treptow as a 19-year-old forced laborer. Hanni Levy was 16 when she was taken to perform forced labor at the textile factory in Berlin Zehlendorf. Both of them were able to survive in hiding in Berlin with the help of non-Jewish acquaintances. Today, Ruth Gumpel lives in California and Hanni Levy in Paris. At the workshop, the school students familiarize themselves with documents from the exhibition and the archive and can ask the contemporary witnesses questions. In November 2010, the Jewish Museum Berlin expects to welcome further Jewish contemporary witnesses who managed to leave Germany in time as children or youths and will speak of their experiences.

When: by appointment

Where: Education Room on first level

Duration: 4,5 hours

Cost: 5 € incl. admission fee

Appointments are possible from 1 to 5 November and from 11 to 16 November. Information and bookings (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 25993 343, fax +49 (0)30 25993 412 or s.hiron@jmberlin.de

Forced Laborers and Work Slaves

Tour for Adults and School Groups from Grade 9

"The Poles wore a P, the Jews a six-pointed star, and we were given OST on a sort of rag ... OST for workers from the east..." reports Olga D. from her time as a forced laborer. The chronological tour through the exhibition shows how differently the various groups of forced laborers were treated, which work they had to do, the living conditions they had to endure, and the "broken life paths" that resulted.

When: by appointment

Duration: 1 hour

Cost: 2,75 € per head including admission fee for school students; 60 € flat rate for adult groups plus reduced admission fee of 2 € per head

Work as Loot: Forced Labor in the Nazi Era

Workshop for School Groups from Grade 9

The workshop focuses on the relationships between forced laborers on the one side and perpetrators, accomplices, and bystanders on the other and tries to fathom the scope for action the different sides had. The students work in small groups on an exhibit and present their findings to the class.

A cooperation with the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

When: by appointment

Where: Education Room on first level

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: 3 € including admission fee

Bookings (for non-journalists) for the program surrounding the special exhibition "Forced Labor" on tel. +49 (0)30 25993-305, fax -412 or fuehrungen@jmberlin.de.

Group size no more than 15; larger groups will be split up.