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Our Trip to Germany - June/July 2005 |
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Leslie headed the ATID - Bridge of Understanding Mission to Germany, and Dov came along as a participant for a memorable trip. You can 'take the tour' and click at the bottom of each page, or skip to a page from here.
This page covers our visit to Frankfurt and Worms.
Click here to see the second page, our visit to Weimar and Buchenwald
Third page - Berlin (Berlin wall, Jewish Museum, Brandenburg Gate, Shoah Memorial)
Fourth page - Berlin - trip to the Reichstag/Bundestag
Fifth page - Berlin - Kreuzberg, Live Eight
Final page - Berlin - Potsdam
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Left, on a walking tour of Frankfurt, graffiti on street art - a giant sculpture of a tie - in front of a bank (it reads "Never trust the suits")
Below are some architectural details we liked in the buildings in Frankfurt on our walking tour there. |
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Left: the Frankfurt main square.
Below: we walked straight into the International Cultural Parade through the city center. |
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Left and below: a walking tour through the city of Worms. At the entrance to the Jewish Quarter.The ghetto was fenced in at either end by iron gates; the Jews were locked in at night and during Christian holidays (also for their own safety) until Napoleon invaded and granted civil rights.
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Details from the Rashi House. Before World War 2, Worms had one of the oldest Jewish communities in Europe. The still-functioning synagogue dates from the 11th century. It was destroyed in Kristalnacht in 1938.They rebuilt it using some of the original masonry.
The sign below is from the synagogue construction and dates from the 11th century. |
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Right: Rachel and Kelly
Below: inside the synagogue there is a sign memorializing the names of those from Worms who were murdered. Later they added the sign on the right, because they found more names - but they also discovered that some had survived the Shoah and so those names were scratched out. |
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Remnants of a burnt Torah scroll from the Synagogue in Worms, retrieved after Kristalnacht (10 November 1938)
Below: the Luther Diet Memorial |
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The ancient cemetery of Worms. There are two famous graves (below) near the entrance - Rabbi Meir of Rotenburg and his patron. Both were buried 700 years ago - although Rabbi Meir was murdered in jail 14 years prior to his body being retrieved. The oldest grave in the cemetery is of "Yaakov haBachur" - a Torah scholar, probably, who died in 1076. |
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On to the next page of our photos from Germany
Back to our Main Page
Back to our Around the World Page |
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