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Bildungs- und Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Wannsee Conference Memorial Site)
Bildungs- und Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Wannsee Conference Memorial Site) Review
The lovely lakeside setting of this Berlin villa belies the unimaginable Holocaust atrocities planned here. This elegant edifice hosted the fateful conference held on January 20, 1942, at which Nazi leaders and German bureaucrats, under SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, planned the systematic deportation and mass extinction of Europe's Jewish population. Today this so-called Endlösung der Judenfrage ("final solution of the Jewish question") is illustrated with a chilling exhibition that documents the conference and, more extensively, the escalation of persecution against Jews and the Holocaust itself. A reference library offers source materials in English. Allow at least two hours for a visit.
- Address: Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58, from the Wannsee S-bahn station, take Bus 114, Zehlendorf, Berlin, 14109 | Map It
- Phone: 030/805-0010
- Cost: Free, tour €2
- Hours: Daily 10--6; library weekdays 10--6
- Website: www.ghwk.de
- Metro Wannsee (S-bahn).
- Location: Outer Berlin
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