Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year.

In the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum there are thirteen smaller permanent exhibitions illuminating various aspects of the history of the place. The Memorial is a place of mourning and commemoration while at the same time fulfilling its mission as a …

Aug 22, 2023 · By the end of October 1941, the SS had deported about 12,000 Soviet prisoners of war to Sachsenhausen. Camp authorities shot thousands of the Soviet POWs shortly after they arrived in the camp. Estimates of Soviet POWs killed …

Jan 27, 2025 · Das "System" KZ. Lagerkommandant Rudolf Höß hatte als SS-Offizier bereits KZ-Erfahrungen in Dachau und Sachsenhausen gesammelt. Auschwitz "funktioniert" anfangs ähnlich: Die Gefangenen sind ...

Aug 23, 2020 · Sachsenhausen ("Houses of the Saxons") is a sleepy suburb of Oranienburg, about one hour north of Berlin, Germany. But during World War II, the village was home to Konzentrationlager Sachsenhausen [http://www.gedenkstaette-sachsenhausen.de/].

May 27, 2024 · Sachsenhausen concentration camp, located in the German town of Oranienburg, stands as a haunting embodiment of the cruelty and inhumanity perpetrated by the Nazi regime. Established in 1936, Sachsenhausen was one of the earliest concentration camps and served as a model for the vast network of camps that followed.

By 1948, Sachsenhausen, now renamed “Special Camp No. 1”, was the largest of three special camps in the Soviet Occupation Zone. The 60,000 people interned over five years included 6,000 German officers transferred from Western Allied camps.

Feb 23, 2022 · KZ Sachsenhausen is the closest major former Nazi concentration camp to Berlin. It is an interesting day trip from Berlin to Oranienburg to see this notorious site. The memorial site is open daily but the museums are closed on Mondays during the winter season.

Jan 20, 2025 · Sachsenhausen, one of the major Nazi German concentration camps, located at the edge of Oranienburg, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Berlin. Sachsenhausen was established in 1936 as the northern German component of the system that would include Buchenwald (for central Germany) and Dachau (for southern Germany).

On 21 March 1933, right in the centre of the town of Oranienburg near Berlin, an empty factory building became the first concentration camp in Prussia. Today, the memorial centre at Sachsenhausen tells the story of the concentration camp at the sites where it took place.