Human rights - About their origins

The UN Human Rights Commission was founded in 1946 in the wake of the recent atrocities committed by the Nazis. Its goal was to create a document that could be used as a basis for preventing future crimes against humanity. Two years later, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Based on the principle of the equality of all human beings, it sets out political, economic, social, and cultural rights in 30 articles. Many of these have now been incorporated into the constitutions of various states.

What connections can be drawn between human rights and Jewish traditions?

The tour examines the origins of individual articles of the Declaration of Human Rights and highlights the relationship between German-Jewish history and these articles at various stations. Independent guides focus on different topics in their tours, ranging from the image of humanity in the Torah, to religious freedom and the prohibition of discrimination, to the right to asylum and freedom of movement, to citizenship and the historical development of human rights.