Brzezinka
Brzezinka is a village in southern Poland, about 3 kilometres from Oświęcim, in the district of Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,100 residents
- Description: village in Gmina Oświęcim, Poland
- Also known as: “Birkenau”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oświęcim.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Bath/Disinfestation facility ‘Sauna’
Historic building
Photo: Pimke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bath/Disinfestation facility ‘Sauna’ is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Effects storage ‘Kanada II’ and Babice.
Effects storage ‘Kanada II’
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Babice
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Babice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Pławy
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pławy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Brzezinka
- Categories: village of Poland and locality
- Location: Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.04261° or 50° 2′ 33″ northLongitude
19.18797° or 19° 11′ 17″ eastPopulation
2,100Elevation
232 metres (761 feet)Open location code
9F2X25VQ+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 31902664OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3102409Wikidata ID
Q995437
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Brzezinka” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Brzezinka”
- Asturian: “Brzezinka”
- Bavarian: “Brzezinka”
- Belarusian: “Бжэзінка”
- Cebuano: “Brzezinka”
- Chechen: “Бжезинка”
- Chinese: “Brzezinka”
- Chinese: “布热津卡”
- Czech: “Březinka”
- Czech: “Brzezinka”
- Dutch: “Birkenau”
- Dutch: “Brzezinka”
- Finnish: “Brzezinka”
- French: “Brzezinka”
- German: “Birkenau”
- German: “Brzezinka”
- Hebrew: “בז’ז’ינקה”
- Indonesian: “Birkenau”
- Indonesian: “Brzezinka”
- Italian: “Brzezinka”
- Japanese: “ブジェジンカ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brzezinka”
- Persian: “بژژنکا”
- Polish: “Brzezinka”
- Portuguese: “Brzezinka”
- Russian: “Бжезинка”
- Russian: “Биркенау”
- Silesian: “Brzezinka”
- Silesian: “Brzeźinka”
- Slovak: “Brzezinka”
- South Azerbaijani: “بژژنکا”
- Spanish: “Brzezinka”
- Swedish: “Brzezinka”
- Tatar: “Бжезинка”
- Turkish: “Brzezinka-3”
- Turkish: “Brzezinka”
- Ukrainian: “Бжезінка”
- Ukrainian: “Біркенау”
- Urdu: “برززنکا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Policja and Gminna Biblioteka Publiczna.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brzezinka”. Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.