From Berlin: Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen Guided Tour Fully Guided
ID: GYG417514-757199
Category:
Country: Germany
Duration:
04:00 hours
Description
Witness war crimes and the Holocaust as you explore the former Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp with a guide. Learn about the slave labor, prisoner abuses, and executions by Nazis and Soviets.
Discover the dark history of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, a model and training camp, on this day tour from Berlin. Explore the memorial site and educational exhibitions with a guide and hear about the causes and consequences of Nazi extremism.
Your tour begins with a pickup from your accommodation in Berlin. Meet your private driver outside your hotel and enjoy a comfortable, air-conditioned ride to Sachsenhausen.
Upon arrival at the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen, join your guide on a private tour. See the Command Headquarters, prisoners’ barracks, and the site of the first crematorium. Continue to the Mass Grave for Concentration Camp Victims, burial grounds, and several memorials.
Next, head to the museum. Walkthrough its exhibits on the camp’s operations under the Nazis and Soviets, which expose the way they tortured and executed their prisoners of war. Among the inmates, find names of political prisoners such as Joseph Stalin’s oldest son, the penultimate PM of France, and the family of the Crown Prince of Bavaria.
Learn which groups the Nazis and Soviets brought to Sachsenhausen, including Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet POWs, Polish people, Jewish people, members of the LGBTQ community, and Freemasons.
Return to Berlin with your driver with a deeper understanding of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and the Soviets at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.
Choose between two versions of this tour. In the fully-guided option, travel with your guide from Berlin, and hear insights and commentary as you drive to Sachsenhausen. If you choose the Guide at Memorial option, travel from Berlin with your driver and meet your guide after arriving in Sachsenhausen.
Highlights
- Discover the history of WWII and the Holocaust at a former concentration camp
- Experience the sobering Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum with a licensed guide
- Learn about the groups persecuted by the Nazis and the camp’s famous prisoners
- See the former camp prison, barracks, first crematorium, and burial grounds
- Avoid the busy trains and with a private transfer from your Berlin accommodation
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• This tour includes an approximately 2-hour round-trip transfer time, depending on the location of your accommodation in Berlin
• Groups of 1-4 travel in a standard sedan car
• Groups of 5 or more travel in a van lIf you're traveling in a smaller group but prefer a bigger car, book a tour for 5 people
• Selected museum exhibitions are closed or have limited opening times on December 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st, and January 1st.
The number of visitors is limited to reduce crowds
Pick-up is at your accommodation in Berlin.
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 48 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 48 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
