When we left the Zoo some people from Holland asked Glen to help them push start their Skoda from the Czech Republic. Proof again how international Berlin is!



We got to go in the Gedächtnis Kirche memorial church on the Kurfurstendamm.



































Next to the Brandenburg Gate they are currently finishing work on the New (Old) American Embassy It used to be there before the soviets took that section of Berlin over after WWII. The Americans didn't want to build it there when the capital moved back to Berlin in the 1990's but they worked a deal to reroute traffic so that cars don't go directly pass it. There will also be no front door to the new Embassy people will enter through a fortified tunnel on another street.






















These pictures show us on our last full day in Berlin. At the new Holocaust Memorial we reflected. We saw the Brandenburger Tor "Brandenburg Gate" And the girls posed in front of it under the Pariser Platz sign. We also had an excellent breakfast in Holger's neighborhood at a Russian Jewish restaurant. In the subway U-bahn Julie took a picture of how even in public they separate all their garbage.

Renata loved riding on the trolley in Prag and on the trolley that looked like a choo choo as you can see in one picture below. She also went on a slide in a toy shop there. Juliie had a nice snack a fried dough with citrus and almonds in it and it was made on a steel rod and was hollow in the middle.







On the way back from Prag to Rotenburg we stopped in Terezin. This was a walled city that Hitler kicked 7 thousand Czech inhabitants out of to make room for 70 thousand Jewish people. At the begining of the war he used it as a "model city" and made films there and let the Red Cross tour there to see how well he was treating the Jews. But in the end it became another concentration camp and towards the end of the War 1945 1000's of Jews and other "enemies of the Reich" were exterminated here. The weather had been warm and sunny on the day we drove here until we aproched the city and then a light rain began. Many graves have only numbers on them but some do also have names.