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. Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ is situated 3 km west of Zaborze.

Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’

Historic building

Block 11 was the name of a brick building in Auschwitz I, the Stammlager or main camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp network. This block was used for executions and torture. Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’ is situated 3 km west of Zaborze.

Jewish Center

Museum

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Osada Stawy Grojeckie.

Oświęcim

Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków. 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.

Osada Stawy Grojeckie

Hamlet

Osada Stawy Grojeckie is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Osada Stawy Grojeckie is situated 3 km southwest of Zaborze.

Auschwitz III (Monowitz)

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 Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps". Auschwitz III (Monowitz) is situated 3½ km east of Zaborze.

Zaborze

Categories: village of Poland and locality
Location: Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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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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