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Sachsenhausen Memorial And Museum

A visit this year to Berlin may well include a trip to see the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum in the city. Museum Sachsenhausen

Part of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, original structures from the concentration camp have been preserved to create a memorial complex comprising 13 exhibitions at different locations as part of decentralising concept that allows for an exploration of the site.

The New Museum hosts temporary shows, while buildings on the site used to house exhibits include the Commandant’s House, the Infirmary Barracks, the Prison and the Soviet Special Camp.

Guided tours of the exhibitions are available from the museum’s educational department in order to learn more about the history of the site and there is a Visitor Information Centre.

The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was built in summer 1936 and was designed to be the ideal of its kind by SS architects, used as a model for other facilities by the Nazi regime.

It claimed tens of thousands of victims and was evacuated in April 1945, with many more prisoners dying on death marches.

In addition, the Museum of the Death Marches in the Belower Forest near Wittstock in Brandenburg is administratively linked to the Sachsenhausen Memorial and commemorates the death march of 18,000 prisoners by the SS in 1945.

Opening times
Daily 0830 -1800
Oct – Mar open until 1630

Entrance Fee
FREE
There is a charge for educational visits

Location
Straße der Nationen