Berlin: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour in English

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5 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
Offered in: English

Award-Winning Sachsenhausen Memorial Tour – A Profound Journey Through History

Sachsenhausen was the first purpose-built concentration camp, designed as a center of terror, persecution, and systematic murder. Initially, it imprisoned those the Nazis deemed racially, socially, or politically inferior.

Travel through the town of Oranienburg and uncover how the local population both supported and benefited from its existence. Your expert, licensed guide will lead you through key sites, including the punishment cells, infirmary, barracks, gas chamber, and crematoria. Hear powerful stories of resilience, courage, and solidarity among inmates in the face of unimaginable horror.

The tour also includes a visit to the Inspectorate of Camps—an unassuming yet critical building from which the Nazis controlled the entire concentration camp system across Europe.

A €3 per person donation supports the site's maintenance, and preservation and future restoration of the Sachsenhausen Memorial.

What's Included

Licensed guide trained by memorial authority
Entry in to the memorial included
English-language guide
Insider Tour donates €3 to the Sachsenhausen memorial authority per guest
Hotel pickup and drop-off
You will require a Transport ticket for zones ABC costing approxminately 9 euros per person
Gratuities
Food and drinks
Train ticket, ABC zones to the Sachsenhausen memorial

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Meeting point: outside FRIEDRICHSTRASSE TRAIN STATION, on the square beside the 'Traenenpalast' (Palace of Tears), Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin. The guides will be wearing a blue lanyard and a yellow name tag holding yellow umbrellas.

End point
This activity ends in a different location. You can choose from multiple locations at checkout.

Itinerary

Duration: 5 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
  • Friedrichstraße (Pass by)

    Take train from our meeting point near S+U Friedrichstraße to Oranienburg. Oranienburg city is where the former concentration camp was constructed.

    Admission ticket free
  • 1
    Oranienburg

    Ride with our guide to Oraninenburg S-bahn. Walk around the town and learn about how complicit the towns folk were and see where inmates used to work.

    15 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 2
    Gedenkstatte und Museum Sachsenhausen

    Sachsenhausen former concentration camp. Arrive at the former Camp and walk around the interiors of the first camp specifically built to be a concentration camp, not using existing structures. See the old barracks, Prison cells and torture cells, Camp kitchen, Station Z (where mass executions took place), the gas chamber and crematorium. You'll also see the infirmaries and pathology center, as well as Tower A - the main guard tower.

    2 hours 30 minutes Admission ticket included

Additional info

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Not recommended for individuals with limited mobility or walking impairments.
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