Zaborze

Zaborze is a in the administrative district of , within , , in southern Poland.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Village with 2,490 residents
  • Description: village in Gmina Oswiecim, Poland
  • Also known as: “Zaborze, Oświęcim County”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ and Jewish Center.

Historic building
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Block 10 was a barrack at the Auschwitz concentration camp where men and women were used as experimental subjects for Nazi doctors. The experiments in Block 10 tested bodily reactions to various substances, ranging from no effect to sterilization. is situated 3 km west of Zaborze.

Museum
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The Auschwitz is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to preserve the memory of the Jewish community of the city of and educate about the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and other prejudices and intolerance. is situated 2½ km northwest of Zaborze.

Photo: Jacek Daczyński, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle raised in the Medieval Ages on the top of a hill, on the right bank of the River in . The castle comprises a thirteenth-century early-Gothic covered by a roof, a two-floor building built around a courtyard and additional connections between the wings built in 1929–31. is situated 2½ km northwest of Zaborze.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Osada Stawy Grojeckie.

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is a town in Province in southern , 60 km west of . It's better known by its German name of Auschwitz, and from 1940 to 1945 over a million people, mostly Jews, were slain in the nearby camps.

Hamlet
is a settlement in the administrative district of , within , , in southern Poland. is situated 3 km southwest of Zaborze.

Locality
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Monowitz was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942 to 1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the ; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps". is situated 3½ km east of Zaborze.

Zaborze

Latitude
50.02073° or 50° 1′ 15″ north
Longitude
19.24187° or 19° 14′ 31″ east
Population
2,490
Elevation
243 metres (797 feet)
Open location code
9F2X26CR+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1314546269
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3081003
Wiki­data ID
Q8063569
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Zaborze” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Zaborze”
  • Cebuano: “Zaborze”
  • Chechen: “Забоже (Освенцимскан повет)”
  • Chechen: “Забоже”
  • Chinese: “Zaborze”
  • Czech: “Zaborze”
  • French: “Zaborze”
  • German: “Zaborze (Oświęcim)”
  • German: “Zaborze”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zaborze (Oświęcim Kūn)”
  • Polish: “Zaborze”
  • Tatar: “Забоже (Освенцимский повяты)”
  • Tatar: “Забоже”
  • Turkish: “Zaborze”
  • Ukrainian: “Забоже”
  • Urdu: “زبورزے، وسوییکم کاؤنٹی”

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