Art museum full of bullet holes from WW 2

Berlin city hall

Berlin street scene

Berlin street scene

Berlin street scene

Berlin Wall remnants

Berlin Wall- another view

Brandenburg gate

Coffee/pastry house (kind of like an early Starbucks) where my dad hung out when he wanted to be inconspicuous

Desk where East German Politburo sat

Factory that sits on land where my dad lived until WW 2; the original house was of course blown up in the war, like much of Berlin

Gestapo museum, built on site of SS headquarters

Gestapo museum- the part that was actually used by the SS and wasn't blown up during the war (because it was underground)

Housing built by East German Communists; note how wide the building is, and how wide the street is

Interior of prewar synagogue (now a museum)

Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery (interestingly, Hitler didn't mess with it at all- I guess he was OK with Jews as long as they were dead)

KaDeWe, grand department store that my dad visited as a kid

Kathe Kollwitz museum (Kathe Kollwitz was an artist who specialized in weepy drawings of starving children etc)

Kreuzberg (bohemian/Middle Eastern area)

List of Nazi deportations of Berlin Jews; my grandparents were on a late March transport to Trawnicki; my father could have been on a late Feb. 1943 transport to Auschwitz, but got very lucky. (If you want to know the details read his book!)

museum with lots of antiquities

Plaque in front of prewar synagogue

Street scene (dome is Oranienbergstrasse synagogue)

Street where my dad grew up

Subway car

Subway station near KaDeWe

This billiards parlor was once a factory where my dad worked in 1942-43; in front of this factory

This building was the boarding school/orphanage where my dad went to school and was bar mitzvahed (in his case more like a boarding school since his parents were alive at the time)

U-Bahn stop near where my dad grew up

Wannsee, where Heydrich & friends planned the Shoah