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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp: Guided Walking Tour

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial & Museum

6 hours €29.00 from Berlin

Sachsenhausen Memorial a guided tour - The specially trained guides use primary sources and historical research to explain the history of the camp and compile the experiences of the prisoners.


Original Berlin Walks - Sachsenhausen Memorial: english guided tour

In Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp just outside Berlin, tens of thousands perished at the hands of the Nazis in conditions of appalling brutality.  The camp became a training ground for the SS and the site of the headquarters of the whole concentration camp system.  After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets used Sachsenhausen as a camp for their own political enemies – thousands more were to perish over the next five years.

Sachsenhausen Memorial Tour tour at a glance: 

✓ a guided tour north of Berlin
✓ 6 hour excursion with professional guides
✓ get deep insights and background knowledge about the Sachsenhausen memorial site
✓ takes place in all weathers and without minimum number of participants
✓ wheelchair accessible 

Professional guides & expert knowlegde 

For this tour, Original Berlin Walks’ guides are trained to unravel the complex history of the Holocaust.  Using witness accounts and historical research, our qualified guides shed light on what life was like as a prisoner and how some were able to survive.

Among others, the following topics will also be addressed:

  • why Sachsenhausen and the concentration camp system were established by the Nazis
  • how the conditions in the camp worsened in 1939.  (Visit the barracks where many of the thousands of Jewish prisoners sent to the camp after the so-called “Kristallnacht” were incarcerated)
  • how the SS used the execution complex at Sachsenhausen to perpetrate acts of mass murder, including the killing of 10,000 Soviet POWs in 1941.  (See the foundations of Station Z, the mass execution facility)
  • how some Jewish prisoners survived by working in the forgery workshop, counterfeiting millions of pounds sterling
  • how some prisoners were subjected to excruciating medical experiments.  (See the oldest intact concentration camp barracks at the infirmary as well as the pathology lab)
  • attempted escapes from the camp, including the tunnel dug by British POW “Jimmy” James and others
  • the “death marches” at the end of the war and the liberation of the camp by the Red Army
  • how the Soviets turned Sachsenhausen into a Special Camp for their own enemies after the war, who they imprisoned, and the fate of these prisoners
  • how the East German regime manipulated the history of the camp for its own end

 

Meeting point

Neue Promenade 3, 10178 Berlin, In front of Starbucks

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Important information

  • For this tour we use public transport. Therefore you need a day ticket ABC (available at BVG-machines)
  • redeemable as smartphone ticket
  • children up to 12 years accompanied by an adult free of charge

The tour guides arrive 5-10 minutes before the tour starts. You will recognize them by their blue name tags. Please check your ticket for the meeting point and start time.

Ticket validity after purchase

  • valid for the booked day
  • accepted as smartphone ticket
  • no print-out needed

Languages

English

Provider

The Original Berlin Walks