Pławy
Pławy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Auschwitz-Birkenau and Gas Chamber/Crematory II.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Auschwitz-Birkenau is the generic name given to the cluster of concentration, labour and extermination camps established by the Nazis during the Second World War and located near the towns of Oświęcim and Brzezinka in southern Poland, some 60 km from Kraków.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Effects storage ‘Kanada II’ and Harmęże.
Effects storage ‘Kanada II’
Locality
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The Kanada warehouses, also known as Effektenlager or simply Kanada, were storage facilities in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.
Harmęże
Village
Photo: Bartek843, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harmęże is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Marian Kołodziej's artwork, The Labyrinth, is displayed in the basement of St. Maximilian Kolbe Centre in Harmęże.
Brzezinka
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brzezinka is a village in southern Poland, about 3 kilometres from Oświęcim, in the district of Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Pławy
- Type: Village with 350 residents
- Description: village in Lesser Poland, Poland
- Categories: village of Poland and locality
- Location: Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.02713° or 50° 1′ 38″ northLongitude
19.17016° or 19° 10′ 13″ eastPopulation
350Elevation
233 metres (764 feet)Open location code
9F2X25GC+V3OpenStreetMap ID
node 31900826OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3088867Wikidata ID
Q7265087
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Pławy” goes by many names.
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Notable Places Nearby
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