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Continue ShoppingYour purchases from the German Holiday Market are 100% for the benefit of the German International School of Silicon Valley. With locations in Mountain View and San Francisco, GISSV is a bilingual school from preschool through grade 12. If you are interested in learning more about a German-English bilingual education, please join us at an upcoming (virtual) open house: January 29.
If you are interested in learning to speak German, improving your German, or obtaining a German language diploma, join us online at GISSV’s Saturday School. Classes for all ages and levels.
As a nonprofit, donations to GISSV are tax deductible. How about a year-end gift to support your favorite nonprofit organization? Contribute before December 31 to take advantage of a tax deduction for 2020.
And an extra big, huge, Santa size thank you to the team of GISSV Elves who brought the spirit of the German Holiday Market directly to people’s homes. We hope the Elves and the reindeer get their much needed rest.
We invite you to keep shopping with Our Favorite Vendors until December 31. And please explore the German Christmas traditions below. We look forward to seeing you IN PERSON on December 13, 2021, at Mountain View’s City Hall Plaza.
In the past years GISSV welcomed every year 10,000+ visitors from all over the San Francisco Bay Area to its cozy, two-block German Holiday Market in Downtown Mountain View.
To keep everyone safe and healthy this year - and to keep the Holiday Market spirit alive - we've moved our 8th German Holiday Market online!
We are happy you are here! Welcome!
GISSV is spearheading this fun virtual event to celebrate a night of hockey with the German community!
Tickets will be available soon - and include special beanies and tickets to a Sharks game when the team is back on the ice and playing before fans at the Shark Tank (SAP Center)
Stay tuned! Sign up for more info!
GISSV's Saturday School is now online!
Classes for children and adults!
First ever language class? Need to brush up on German?
Seeking a German diploma? We have a class for you!
Online registration for the Spring 2021 Semester begins on January 2nd!