Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp with French Speaking Tour Guide
Description
Visit the former Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial with a certified professional guide. This French-language tour from Berlin offers a powerful insight into one of the first Nazi camps, built in 1936 to imprison political opponents, Jews, Roma, and others. Learn about the daily life of prisoners, the SS training system, forced labor, medical experiments, and the camp’s role in Nazi propaganda. You'll see the Appellplatz, barracks 38 and 39, the former kitchen, infirmary, and the remains of Station Z (gas chamber and crematorium). The tour also addresses the site's use under Soviet occupation. Your guide will share survivor testimonies and historical context to help you understand this key site of Nazi repression and today’s work of remembrance. The guided visit at the Memorial itself lasts about 3 hours. A fee of 3€ is collected at the beginning of the tour. This is a donation for the memorial.
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Itinerary
The tour with an French guide starts at the meeting point of Potsdamer Platz no. 10 (S/U-Bahn Potsdamer Platz). We take from there a train to the city of Oranienburg. You will need a ticket for the zones ABC.
The visit to the former Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp begins at the Memorial entrance, where we learn about its role as a model camp in the Nazi system. We continue to the former SS Officers’ Casino, a stark contrast to the prisoners’ reality. Through Tower A, the main gate, we see how the camp’s layout enforced total control. On the Roll Call Square, we hear about the long, punishing daily roll calls. In Barracks 38 and 39, we learn about the persecution of Jewish prisoners. The former camp kitchen, now a museum, shows documents and testimonies about forced labor and daily life. At the ruins of Station Z, the site of the gas chamber and crematoria, we confront the camp’s function as a place of extermination. The tour ends at the infirmary and pathology lab, where medical experiments and abuse were carried out.
From the train station of Oranienburg, your guide take you back to Berlin.
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Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(3)
Place upsetting, full of history and I especially thank the very friendly and exciting guide without whom we would not have emerged so enriched I recommend
Our guide told us about the lives of different people, victims but also executioners. He also gave us a history before the war to understand the context of the creation of concentration and extermination camps. The tour and explanations given of the buildings were full of emotion.
Merci beaucoup pour ce retour.
We made the visit with our 3 teenagers. Guide Arthur was very interesting and captivated our teenagers with anecdotes and a well-honed ride. Counting the 2h30 transport, the time on site is actually relatively short and it passes very quickly. We barely have time to visit the exhibitions and read some panels.
Merci de nous avoir accompagné au mémorial du camp de Sachsenhausen. Nous essayons toujours d'adapter notre discours à notre public et sommes heureux d'avoir pu intéresser vos enfants.
