Stutthof Concentration Camp regular tour from Gdansk
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Offered in: English
Overview
Your English speaking driver will pick you up from your hotel in comfortable Mini Bus with AC and take you to Sztutowo where former camp and now where the Stutthof Museum is located. Visit the museum for about two hours with English speaking Museum’s guide.Stutthof Concentration Camp, the first and longest operating concentration camp in the Polish territory. The moment the German Nazis invaded Poland, massive arrests of Poles in the Free City of Danzig started. Only in the first day of the war approx. 1500 people were arrested and put in Stutthof Concentration Camp.Stutthof was the place where 110,000 people were kept: men, women and children, citizens of 28 countries and over 30 nationalities. Among them were also Poles, Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, White Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Czechs, Slovaks, Finns, Norwegians, French, Danes, Dutch, Belgs, Germans, Austrians, English, Spanish, Italians, Yugoslavs, Hungarians and Gypsies.
During the imprisonment they were exposed to a number of exterminating factors such as slave-like work, malnutrition, terrible sanitation, disease, mental and physical torture. 65,000 people died as a result of exterminating living conditions as well as of executions by shooting, hanging, murdering in gas chambers by means of Cyclone B, killing by means of phenol injections into the heart, beating and torturing, and during evacuation by land and by sea.
At Stutthof Concentration Camp you will visit:
- The old and new camp quarters
- See the commander’s villa
- Go to the gas chambers, and crematorium and hear terrifying reports of mass murder
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Where
Gdansk, Poland
Meeting point:
Meet the tour group at The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre or choose to be picked up from your accommodation. To book pick-up service leave your pickup location at checkout.
What To Expect
- Visit the Stutthof Museum with and English speaking guide
- Learn about the persecution and occupation of Pomerania
- Discover the first Nazi concentration camp outside German territory
- Pay your respects at the camp victims’ monument
From US$ 64