Berlin: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour 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.
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Sachsenhausen Tour
What's included in Berlin: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour in English
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Take train from our meeting point near S+U Friedrichstraße to Oranienburg. Oranienburg city is where the former concentration camp was constructed.
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.
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.
Inclusions
- 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
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Good walking shoes are recommended
- Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before the tour starting time
- Check the weather and dress accordingly
- Not recommended for individuals with limited mobility or walking impairments.
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- Depending on the best route on the day, your guide may decide to leave the group off here. Make sure to talk to your guide about your onward journey after the tour and they will be sure to point you in the right direction!
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Ticket Redemption
The tour is in ENGLISH Meeting point: outside FRIEDRICHSTRASSE TRAIN STATION, on the square beside the 'Traenenpalast' (Palace of Tears), Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin. Your guide will be wearing a yellow name tag holding a yellow umbrella for easy recognition. Please arrive 15 minutes before the designated start time Gratuities are not included