Babice

Babice is a in the administrative district of , within , , in southern Poland.
Wikipedia
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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.

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.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Brzezinka.

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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.

Village
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is a village in southern , about 3 kilometres from , in the district of , , .

Locality
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The Kanada warehouses, also known as Effektenlager or simply Kanada, were storage facilities in the in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. is situated 3 km southwest of Babice.

Babice

Latitude
50.05251° or 50° 3′ 9″ north
Longitude
19.20908° or 19° 12′ 33″ east
Population
1,580
Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)
Open location code
9F2X3635+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 600001560
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3104019
Wiki­data 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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