Berlin: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour in English

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(5,716 reviews)
Berlin, Germany

5 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
Offered in: English

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

Sachsenhausen was the first purpose-built concentration camp, created as a centre of terror, persecution, and systematic brutality. Initially, it held those the Nazi regime considered racially, socially, or politically undesirable.

Travel through the town of Oranienburg and learn how the local community was connected to the camp, in many cases, benefited from its presence. Your expert, licensed guide will lead you through key locations, including the punishment cells, infirmary, barracks, gas chamber, and crematoria, while sharing powerful stories of resilience, courage, and solidarity among prisoners in the face of unimaginable suffering.

The tour also visits the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps—a seemingly ordinary building that served as the administrative centre controlling the entire Nazi camp system across Europe.

A €3 per person donation supports the preservation, 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 per guest
Hotel pickup and drop-off
You will require a Transport ticket for zones ABC
Gratuities
Food and drinks
ABC train ticket required for the round trip from the meeting point to the 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 back at the meeting point.

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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