Charter flight into the past

50 years of the Berlin Senate's visiting program for victims of Nazi persecution.

Begrüßung einer Gästegruppe aus den USA auf dem Flughaften Tegel, 1971. – Begrüßung einer Gästegruppe aus den USA auf dem Flughaften Tegel, 1971.

On June 10, 1969, the West Berlin Senate decided to invite former Berliners who had been driven into exile by National Socialist persecution to visit Berlin. Around 35,000 people accepted this invitation over the decades.

To mark the 50th anniversary in 2019, an exhibition created by the Berlin Senate Chancellery and the German Resistance Memorial Center traced the development of the programme and selected biographies of the participants. In the year of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war and liberation from the Nazi dictatorship as well as the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, an updated version can be seen at the Mitte Museum.

Runtime: from September 2025

Takes place here:

• Mitte Museum