Berlin: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour in English
Overview
Available languages
5 hours 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
Award-Winning Sachsenhausen Memorial Tour – A Profound Journey Through History
Sachsenhausen was the first purpose-built concentration camp, designed as a center of terror, persecution, and systematic murder. Initially, it imprisoned those the Nazis deemed racially, socially, or politically inferior.
Travel through the town of Oranienburg and uncover how the local population both supported and benefited from its existence. Your expert, licensed guide will lead you through key sites, including the punishment cells, infirmary, barracks, gas chamber, and crematoria. Hear powerful stories of resilience, courage, and solidarity among inmates in the face of unimaginable horror.
The tour also includes a visit to the Inspectorate of Camps—an unassuming yet critical building from which the Nazis controlled the entire concentration camp system across Europe.
A €3 per person donation supports the site's maintenance, and preservation and future restoration of the Sachsenhausen Memorial.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Not recommended for individuals with limited mobility or walking impairments.
Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before the tour starting time
Check the weather and dress accordingly
Check the weather and dress accordingly
Good walking shoes are recommended
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Licensed guide trained by memorial authority
Entry in to the memorial included
English-language guide
Insider Tour donates €3 to the Sachsenhausen memorial authority per guest
Hotel pickup and drop-off
You will require a Transport ticket for zones ABC costing approxminately 9 euros per person
Gratuities
Food and drinks
Train ticket, ABC zones to the Sachsenhausen memorial
What To Expect
Take train from our meeting point near S+U Friedrichstraße to Oranienburg. Oranienburg city is where the former concentration camp was constructed.
Oranienburg
Ride with our guide to Oraninenburg S-bahn. Walk around the town and learn about how complicit the towns folk were and see where inmates used to work.
Options
Sachsenhausen Tour
Reviews
5,314 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Has to be seen
David H,
Nov 21, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00No matter how much you think you know about Sachsenhausen or the organization that conceived, developed and administered it this tour will change you. This is not site seeing; this is visiting history. The tour is well-organized and our guide, Mikhail, was excellent. He blended historical facts with testimony from survivors and anecdotes of his own. This was a powerful experience. I’m not recommending it….I’m telling you not to miss it.
Informative and Friendly
U9446CSdaveh,
Nov 21, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Ariel was very knowledgeable, informative, and friendly...plus took well care of the group! We really enjoyed our day!
An important tour with a wonderful guide
Kathy B,
Nov 21, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A deeply moving and important tour. Our tour guide Mikhail was wonderful, respectful, informative and showed a huge depth of knowledge. This is not an easy day but Mikhail helped navigate the horror with great sensitivity. We would thoroughly recommend this tour .
Mikhail was a very nice guide
mauraf773,
Nov 21, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00Mikhail was a very nice guide, very knowledgeable about holocaust history. I recommend this tour a lot, while it might be tough to hear, education on this is very important , as it’s the only way to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself.
A tour not to miss
joanav575,
Nov 21, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Mikhail was a great guide! Surely a tour to make, very elucidating regarding the second world war! Not to miss in your visit to berlin
Sachsenhaus
Colin W,
Nov 20, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Very good guide for the tour will was super very helpful and informative even help with sorting tickets out for the train.
Visiting the camp
gabrielahR4280YV,
Nov 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00It was amazing! The tour took a long time, it was full of details and information about everything. The guide Ariel was simply the most professional I could see. The place we were visiting, a former concentration camp, was a place where we have to be strong for, and being supported with all the details from the guide made it a very interesting experience.
Fantastic
benmV613ZF,
Nov 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Ariel was a fantastic guide, very friendly and informative. He was very knowledgeable and answered all questions asked.
An experience of complex emotions
358renaef,
Nov 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Joseph is a great teacher and is very engaging throughout the tour. I appreciated his compassion for the difference in experience each person had during our visit. There were things in the tour that I chose to not interact with and his check-in was extremely kind.
Very good tour a must do
34dillonp,
Nov 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Joseph was really good he took what is an incredibly sensitive topic and made it incredibly informative and I learned a lot of new things and have a new appreciation for the level of knowledge that some of the guides have
From €29.90
Want a private experience? Upgrade to a private tour
Chat with us on social
Related Experiences
Operated by Insider Tour Berlin