Hidden in the Berlin district of Weissensee, this overgrown Jewish cemetery survived the Nazis, and remains the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe.
We uncover stories from WWI, the Holocaust and World War II, but also the days of growing privilege and acceptance of the Jewish community in the 19th Century. People who hid here, tragic suicides, and the families behind Berlin’s great department stores, and how the graveyard became the peaceful and often overgrown place it is today.
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