Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial

Hidden away but worth the visit

We were in Berlin and planning to go to Pirna when we learned about this place. It is hidden in the back of an active industrial area but it is a free museum and very thought provoking. A lot of the e...

Impressive and scary

Ahead of the town of Pirna you find the concentration camp Sonnenstein, where disabled people were murdered by the Nazis in WW II. Interesting exhibition that informs about the history of the building...

Thought-provoking museum concerning Nazi atrocities

When visiting Pirna, perhaps after a steamer trip from Dresden, make time to go to this sombre museum which commemorates a black period in German history. Pirna- Sonnenstein was one of 6 sites where t...

How did we miss this?

Cycling from bad schandau ..We happened upon an impressive vintage car rally @ the schloss , which we walked up the hill to but somehow we missed the memorial of what happened here? Felt very uncomfor...

Inconceivable history

In the basement of this building in a few small areas was a killing factory where the unimaginable number of nearly 15,000 people were gassed in the context of the euthanasia program "Aktion T4". The ...