# Berlin <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Berlin (German)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Berlin, Germany</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>52°31′N 13°23′E</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Berlin is the capital of Germany and was home to one of the largest and most influential Jewish communities in Europe. Jews are documented in Berlin from the 13th century; the community expanded greatly in the 18th–19th centuries and became a center of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) and Reform Judaism, with landmarks such as the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße. On the eve of the Nazi era Berlin had roughly 160,000 Jews — about a third of German Jewry. The community was devastated by emigration, deportation, and murder in the Holocaust; deportations ran largely from the Grunewald station and the Levetzowstraße assembly point. A community was re-established after 1945 and Berlin again has a sizeable, growing Jewish population today. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — History of the Jews in Berlin; YIVO Encyclopedia — Berlin.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Reizel Mirels Fränkel (b.1699)]] | Died 05/30/1764 | | [[Hugo Lehrs (b.1904)]] | Born 06/10/1904 | | [[Hedwig Luise Glücksmann (b.1906)]] | Born 08/15/1906 | | [[Duvid Goldfischer (b.1926)]] | Born 02/05/1926 | | [[Soshe Goldfischer (b.1929)]] | Born ~02/08/1929 | | [[Etta Goldfischer (b.1932)]] | Born 06/21/1932 | | [[Aharon Yaakov Fink (b.1934)]] | Born 1934 | | [[Rosie Goldfischer (b.1937)]] | Born 1937 | | [[Jakub Goldfischer (b.1937)]] | Born 07/15/1937 |