Photo: Refugee Voices Tours/privateA tour group started by a British immigrant is giving Syrian refugees the chance to connect their new home to the one they left behind. A tour through central Berlin on a recent, rainy Saturday afternoon guided its participants through some of Berlin’s most typical attractions: Checkpoint Charlie, Gendarmenmarkt, the shopping district around Friedrichstrasse. For example, the tour connects the communist East German government’s repression of the June 17th 1953 uprising during the Cold War to the 1982 Hama massacre. Another stop on the tour reveals the perhaps little known connection between Nazi Germany and Syria. “People escaping from East to West were similar to Syrian refugees now,” Adi says.

Source: The Local May 02, 2017 12:56 UTC