The Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen
Visit Sachsenhausen Memorial & Museum on a 2-hour guided tour, learning about the 200,000 prisoners, camp life, and the Holocaust’s history, from its origins to its legacy today.
Area
Berlin
Type
Art & Architecture
History
Grade
Standard
Who
Adults
Difficulty
Leisurely
Duration
Full Day
Half Day
The Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen is located approx. an one hour drive from Berlin. Your tour guide will, during a 2 hours tour, explain about the 200,000 people who were imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, the living conditions in the camp and more globally about the holocaust.
The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was built in the summer of 1936 by concentration camp prisoners from the Emsland camps (further West). It was the first new camp to be established after Himmler was appointed Chief of the German Police in 1936. The Sachsenhausen camp served the Nazi regime as a model and training camp. Overall, about 200 000 persons (especially political opponents and Jews) were imprisoned, tortured or killed there. In late summer 1941, a mass shooting facility was built, in which up to 18000 Soviet prisoners of war were murdered. The evacuation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp by the SS began the morning of 21 April 1945, when the Red Army was only a few kilometers away. The prisoners were sent on a death march in which again more than 1000 prisoners died. In 1961, the East German Democratic Republic founded the Sachsenhausen National Memorial. The present Memorial and the Sachsenhausen Museum have been part of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation since 1993.
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