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GENEALOGY
JewishGen German Special Interest Group (SIG)
Extensive resources for family historians tracing ancestral roots as well as others interesting in German Jewish history. Besides today’s Germany, it covers other German-speaking or once German ruled areas such as Alsace, Lorraine, Silesia, Posen, and parts of Switzerland and Poland.
Jewish Genealogy in Bavarian Swabia
Includes, among other resources, a fully searchable jgbs database providing access to tens of thousands of 19th century civil records for the Jewish inhabitants of towns and villages in Bavarian Swabia.
Tips and Links to Genealogy Resources (in Berlin)
TOURISM – GENERAL
Germany for the Jewish Traveler
Downloadable PDF Guide put out by the station travel board and covering 64 towns and cities. You can also access it your browser HERE
TOURIST PROFESSIONALS – BERLIN
Tourism site with lots of links and recommendations by Israel-born professional Berlin tour guide Yoav Sapir and his German-born wife.
Private tours, with several itineraries focused on a Jewish theme or emphasis, in and around Berlin, by guides with academic training who feel comfortable broaching complex and controversial issues.
A travel and tour site to Jewish Berlin, operated Nadav and Tamar Gablinger’s Gablinger Berlin Tours.
Information site that also arranges tours
Web site of Sue Arns, a private Jewish tour guide to Berlin and Potsdam