As the first company to offer tours to Sachsenhausen, we seek to provide tours that do justice to a complex and difficult history. Our specially trained and licensed guides will place Sachsenhausen in the broader context of the camp system and the Holocaust.
- Learn why Sachsenhausen and the concentration camp system were established by the Nazis
- Visit the barracks where many of the thousands of Jewish prisoners sent to the camp after the so-called “Kristallnacht” were incarcerated
- Hear 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.
- Find out how some Jewish prisoners survived by working in the forgery workshop, counterfeiting millions of pounds sterling
- Your expert guide will tell you about medical experiments, attempted escapes, the “death marches” at the end of the war and the liberation of the camp by the Red Army
| Included | Private tour guide entrance / memorial fee |
|---|---|
| Not included | Train tickets Gratuities |
| Duration | 6 Hours |
| Bring along | Day pass or 2 single tickets for zone ABC for public transport Weather-appropriate clothing Comfortable shoes |
| Participants | You can book for a group of max. 30 people per guide. If your group is bigger, you need to book more guides. |
| Important information | Please note: As you cannot buy refreshments/snacks inside the memorial, we advise you to bring food and drink for the day with you!
For general questions before the booking, please get in touch with [email protected] |
Further information
Meeting point: Starbucks at Hackescher Markt (Neue Promenade 3, 10178 Berlin).
During the booking process you can also choose to start the tour from your centrally located hotel, Berlin's main station or directly at the visitor centre in Sachsenhausen.
Original Berlin Walks’ guides are trained and licensed by the memorial site to unravel the complex history of the Holocaust. Using witness accounts and the latest historical research your Original Berlin Walks guide will uncover what life was like for the prisoners of Sachsenhausen as they underwent forced labour in conditions of appalling brutality.
Meet your guide in the centre of Berlin and travel by train to the town of Oranienburg about 40km north of the city. Trace the very same path that prisoners were forcibly marched to the site by their Nazi guards, and explore the memorial site while your guide will explain to you how various victim groups such as Jewish people, political prisoners, Soviet soldiers and many other groups, were persecuted.
It is estimated that between 1936 and 1945 around 200,000 people were imprisoned at Sachsenhausen, many of whom were ultimately murdered under the National Socialist Regime. On site, you will see amongst other things the Jewish barracks, the shoe-testing track, the camp prison, and the execution centre "Station Z".
Your guide will also tell you how the camp was liberated by Soviet soldiers in 1945, only to be turned into a Soviet internment camp that secretly remained in use up to 1950.
Including travel time to and from Berlin this 6-hour tour aims to give you a greater insight into the tragic history of the Nazi concentration camp, Sachsenhausen.
By booking this tour you support the upkeep, development and historical research undertaken by one of Germany’s most visited concentration camp memorial sites. A percentage of every ticket sold for this tour is sent to the memorial site to make sure that this important place of memory and education can be used sustainably by individual visitors, schools, and tour groups.
