Private Tour: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Tour
In this 6-hour private tour including travel time, guests will embark on a comprehensive exploration of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and Memorial. The specially trained and licensed guides of this tour aim to provide an experience that does justice to the complex and difficult history of the camp. They will place this camp and memorial in the broader context of the camp system, the Holocaust, and Germany’s postwar grappling with the crimes of the Nazi period.
Sights and information on this tour includes Tower A, the “Shoe Testing Track”, the Roll Call Yard (Appellplatz), the “Jewish Barracks”, the camp prison, the story of “Great Escaper” Jimmy James, the Kitchen, “Station Z” execution center, the Pathology Lab, the Infirmary Barracks, the Soviet Special Camp 7, the “Green Monster”, the “Death March”, Operation Bernhard, the “small camp”, the Execution Trench, the T-Building, and the Homosexual prisoners’ memorial.
Guests should have a day pass ABC ticket ready as public transport will be used on this tour. The meeting point is your hotel lobby. This tour concludes back in the city center.
This tour is provided on a reserved basis prior to departure.
Duration:
Approximately 6 hours
Meeting point:
Your hotel lobby
Ending point:
Same as meeting point
Departure Time:
To be confirmed at the time of booking
Included:
Private Tour Guide
Not Included:
Transportation to/from hotel, gratuities, public transportation tickets, food, anything not aforementioned
Important Information:
Public transport is used on this tour, please have a day pass or 2 single tickets for zone ABC for public transport or buy one at the station, your guide will be able to assist. You will need an FFP2-mask when using public transport. Please note, the insides of any of the palaces / buildings will not be visited on the tour. Please wear weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable shoes as the tour is conducted outdoors. Please bring your own food and drinks if necessary.
Maximum number of participants: 8
Tour does not operate 25 and 31st December, 1st January.
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