Join our Sachsenhausen tour from Berlin — a historian-led 6-hour concentration camp memorial tour. Small groups, deep context, and a respectful approach to one of history’s most important sites.
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Generator Berlin Alexanderplatz, Otto-Braun-Straße 65, 10178 Berlin
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The Original Berlin Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Tour is a guided tour in the heart of Berlin. If sightseeing Berlin is your goal, you would want to join this tour. This walking tour will bring you back to the past as local guides will tell you everything you have to know about the history of Berlin. Berlin’s tourism offers a great deal of history, politics, and media, nonetheless, it also portrays how our world had become a better place for everyone.
Duration
6 Hours
Language
English
Group Size
Max 20 people
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Free up to 24 hours
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A glimpse into the Sachsenhausen Memorial experience — through the lens of our guided tours.
Everything you need to know before visiting the Sachsenhausen Memorial.
Opening Hours
Every day at 10am
Where: The meeting point is in front of Generator Berlin Alexanderplatz, Otto-Braun-Straße 65, 10178 Berlin
Price: €29,00 Per Person
Free Admission
Entry to the memorial grounds and all exhibitions is completely free of charge.
Guided Tour Prices
Adult
Our guided tour price includes the round-trip S-Bahn journey from Berlin, a licensed historian guide, and a 3.5-hour walking tour of the memorial.
Remember that a €3 personal donation will be needed while visiting the Memorial. The guide will gather this gift for the Memorial and its upkeep before arriving at the camp. ( kindly get precise change ready.)
Visitors will want a current ABC transit ticket.
Bringing a food and drink is advised as there are few choices.
With our guided tour, you don't need to worry about transport or navigation. We travel together from Berlin Alexanderplatz and your guide handles everything.
We meet at Generator Berlin Alexanderplatz at 10:00 AM. On the train to Oranienburg, your guide introduces the political climate of 1930s Germany and the origins of the camp system.
Walking through Oranienburg, we discuss the town’s relationship with the camp. At the gate inscribed “Arbeit Macht Frei,” your guide explains the calculated cruelty behind the slogan.
The vast roll call area and the commandant’s watchtower reveal the camp’s geometry of control — designed to dehumanise and dominate through architecture itself.
Inside the reconstructed barracks, we explore overcrowding, the prisoner hierarchy, and the strategies people used to survive. Your guide shares individual stories that bring the history to life.
The isolation cells and the former execution site (Station Z) represent the most harrowing part of the tour. We pause here for quiet contemplation and reflection.
We conclude at the Soviet memorial, discussing liberation, memory, and the site’s significance today. We return to Berlin by approximately 4:00 PM.
The Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum serves as painful, yet important reminder of the atrocities committed during Nazi Germany. Our tour from Berlin travels the 35-kilometers north to educate visitors about this dark chapter of German history while also paying homage to the victims of the Nazi regime. Learn about Nazi operations and the grim living conditions of the camp as your guide takes you through the grounds. Our Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum Tour takes approximately 6 hours.
Meet your guide in the center of Berlin and take public transportation to the former concentration camp together. Follow your guide through the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum and visit important points of interests like Barracks 38 and 39, Roll Call Area, Guard Tower A, foundations of Station Z, and more. Following your tour of the grounds, return to the Berlin city center or opt to stay longer on your own. Join us as we embark on this time travel tour. Book your tour with us.
Led by historians trained specifically in Holocaust education — not general tour guides reading from a script.
Small group sizes (max 20) ensure a personal, respectful experience where every question is heard.
We focus on context and understanding. You’ll leave knowing the “why,” not just the “what.”
Ethical storytelling: we centre the experiences of prisoners and survivors, not the perpetrators.
Transparent pricing with no hidden fees — student and group discounts available.
No rushed schedules — we allow time for reflection at key memorial sites including Station Z.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure. No questions asked, full refund.
Historians & Holocaust Educators | Berlin-based since 2015
“Our goal is not just to show you Sachsenhausen — it’s to help you understand the human stories behind the walls.”
Entry to the Sachsenhausen Memorial is free — no Sachsenhausen concentration camp tickets are required. However, if you want a guided experience with expert historical commentary, you can book a Sachsenhausen tour from Berlin online. Our concentration camp memorial tour includes a trained historian, small group size, and transport guidance from central Berlin. Check our booking page for current pricing and availability.
The full experience takes approximately 6 hours, including the train journey from Berlin Alexanderplatz to Oranienburg and back. You will spend around 3.5 hours at the memorial site itself.
We travel together by S-Bahn (S1 line) from central Berlin. The journey takes about 50 minutes each way. Your guide provides historical context during the train ride, making it part of the experience.
The memorial officially recommends a minimum age of 14 years for educational programs and individual young visitors.
For a tour of the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, wear modest, respectful clothing and sturdy, comfortable walking shoes. Bring a water bottle, weather protection (sunscreen or an umbrella), and a small snack, as much of the extensive site is outdoors with limited food options.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour departure time. No questions asked — you will receive a full refund.
The memorial grounds are largely flat and wheelchair accessible. Some original structures have uneven surfaces. Please contact us in advance if you have specific accessibility needs and we will do our best to accommodate.
Yes, a Berlin ABC zone ticket is required for the S-Bahn journey. This is not included in the tour price. Your guide will help you with ticket purchase if needed.
The tour runs rain or shine. Much of the experience is outdoors, so we recommend dressing appropriately. The history doesn’t change with the weather — and some visitors find that quieter, overcast days add to the reflective atmosphere.
Under the direction of driven and informed guides, this trip presents a fresh view of Sachsenhausen’s horrific past. Our guides use strong stories, survivor testimony, and provocative ideas to bring history to life rather than merely repeat facts. From the time you meet them in central Berlin, they will make sure your trip is respectful, instructive, and very meaningful.
When: Every Day at 10am.
Where: The meeting point is in front of Generator Berlin Alexanderplatz, Otto-Braun-Straße 65, 10178 Berlin
Price: 29€ per Person
Imagine spending hours, weather or not, in the Roll-Call Square counting prisoners several times a day. This huge open area was used for forced labour, unrelenting discipline, and cruel penalties. Hear how thousands of inmates suffered greatly in these very places and how luck and pure will defined survival.
Remember that a €3 personal donation will be needed while visiting the Memorial. The guide will gather this gift for the Memorial and its upkeep before arriving at the camp. ( kindly get precise change ready.)
Visitors will want a current ABC transit ticket.
Bringing a food and drink is advised as there are few choices.
Feel the weight of dishonesty as you pass the iron gate labelled “Arbeit Macht Frei,” (Work Sets You Free). This gateway represented false promise, guiding inmates into a realm of unspeakable violence. Our guide will go over the terrible reality behind this sardonic expression and the destiny those who crossed it faced.
Enter a rebuilt prisoner barrack and see personally the small, appalling living quarters. Three high wooden bunk beds packed quarters, dirty surroundings made daily existence intolerable. Learn horrifying tales of how prisoners suffered disease, malnutrition, and cruel treatment under the direction of their captors.
Sachsenhausen’s punishment cells were tucked behind sturdy concrete walls for anyone who disobeyed camp regulations. Prisoners experienced here execution, torture, and solitary incarceration. Discover the horrible penalties meted out in these cells as well as the eerie quiet that permeates this section of the camp.
The so-called camp “hospital” was anything but a place of healing. Instead, it became a site of medical experimentation, where prisoners were subjected to inhumane procedures under the guise of scientific research. Our guides will share shocking details about the experiments conducted here and the suffering endured by those used as test subjects.
Station Z’s foundations expose the sad destiny of many inmates. The execution facilities of the camp—gas chambers and firing squads—were housed on this location. Here we stop to consider the lessons history has imparted and to honour the victims. Here history confronts us and demands that we never forget.
Seeing Sachsenhausen is not only a historical lesson but also a necessary experience that reminds us of the need of memory and education. This trip promotes conversation on the present and future as well as contemplation on the past. “This visit changed the way I see history permanently,” one of our visitors said.
Come along for this amazing trip across history. Daily at 10 AM, tours leave central Berlin. The memorial requires a modest €3 payment; transport calls for an ABC transit ticket. Bring a snack, choose sensible shoes, and get ready for an event that will linger well beyond the tour concludes. Book now to participate in this vital historical inquiry!
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was a major and troubling site in the Nazi camp system. It was set up in 1936 in Oranienburg, just north of Berlin, and became a model camp where the SS trained, punished, forced people to work, and carried out mass murder.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is one of Germany’s most significant memorials. Located just outside Berlin, it draws thousands of visitors each
Daily departures from Berlin. Small groups. Expert historians. €29 per person.
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