Babice
Babice 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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- Type: Village with 1,580 residents
- Description: village in Gmina Oświęcim, Poland
- Also known as: “Babice, Oświęcim County”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jewish Center and Oświęcim.
Jewish Center
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Oświęcim Castle
Museum
Photo: Jacek Daczyński, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oświęcim Castle is a castle raised in the Medieval Ages on the top of a hill, on the right bank of the River Soła in Oświęcim. The castle comprises a thirteenth-century early-Gothic defence tower covered by a roof, a two-floor building built around a courtyard and additional connections between the wings built in 1929–31.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oświęcim and Brzezinka.
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.
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.
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. Effects storage ‘Kanada II’ is situated 3 km southwest of Babice.
Babice
- Categories: village of Poland and locality
- Location: Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.05251° or 50° 3′ 9″ northLongitude
19.20908° or 19° 12′ 33″ eastPopulation
1,580Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)Open location code
9F2X3635+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 600001560OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3104019Wikidata ID
Q4837852
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Babice” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Babice”
- Cebuano: “Babice”
- Chechen: “Бабице (Освенцимскан повет)”
- Chechen: “Бабице”
- Chinese: “Babice”
- Czech: “Babice”
- French: “Babice”
- German: “Babice”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Babice (Oświęcim Kūn)”
- Polish: “Babice”
- Silesian: “Babice”
- Silesian: “Babicy (uośwjyńćimski krys)”
- Tatar: “Бабице (Освенцимский повяты)”
- Tatar: “Бабице”
- Turkish: “Babice”
- Ukrainian: “Бабиці”
- Ukrainian: “Бабіце”
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