Oświęcim County
Oświęcim County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: powiat with 154,000 residents
- Description: powiat of Poland
- Also known as: “Powiat oswiecimski” and “powiat oświęcimski”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Auschwitz-Birkenau and Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’.
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.
Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’
Historic building
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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 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.
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
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Brzezinka is a village in southern Poland, about 3 kilometres from Oświęcim, in the district of Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Zaborze
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zaborze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Oświęcim County
- Location: Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Oświęcim County” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Oświęcim barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Асвенцімскі павет”
- Belarusian: “Асвянцімскі павет”
- Bulgarian: “Освиенцимски окръг”
- Bulgarian: “Ошвенчимски окръг”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Oświęcim”
- Cebuano: “Powiat oświęcimski”
- Chinese: “Oświęcim Kūn”
- Chinese: “奧斯威辛縣”
- Czech: “Okres Osvětim”
- Czech: “Okres Oświęcim”
- Dutch: “Oświęcim”
- Dutch: “powiat Oswiecimski”
- Dutch: “Powiat Oświęcimski”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Oświęcim”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Oświęcim”
- Esperanto: “powiat oświęcimski”
- Estonian: “Oświęcimi maakond”
- Finnish: “Oświęcimin piirikunta”
- French: “Oświęcim”
- French: “powiat d’Auschwitz”
- French: “powiat d’Oświęcim”
- French: “Powiat d’Oświęcim”
- French: “powiat oświęcimski”
- Galician: “Condado de Oświęcim”
- German: “powiat oświęcimski”
- German: “Powiat Oświęcimski”
- Greek: “Πόβιατ Οσφιέντσιμ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אושוויינצ’ים”
- Hungarian: “Oświęcim megye”
- Irish: “Contae Oświęcim”
- Italian: “distretto di Oswiecim”
- Italian: “distretto di Oświęcim”
- Italian: “Distretto di Oświęcim”
- Italian: “powiat oświęcimski”
- Japanese: “オシフィエンチム郡”
- Javanese: “Powiat Oświęcim”
- Korean: “오시비엥침군”
- Latvian: “Osvencimas apriņķis”
- Latvian: “Powiat oświęcimski”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oświęcimski Kūn”
- Persian: “شهرستان اوشوینچیم”
- Polish: “powiat oświęcimski”
- Polish: “Powiat oświęcimski”
- Portuguese: “condado de Oświęcim”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Oświęcim”
- Portuguese: “powiat oświęcimski”
- Romanian: “Districtul Oświęcim”
- Russian: “Освенцимский повет”
- Russian: “Освенцимский повят”
- Sardinian: “distretto de Oświęcim”
- Slovak: “Powiat oświęcimski”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوشوینچیم”
- Spanish: “condado de Oświęcim”
- Spanish: “Condado de Oświęcim”
- Spanish: “powiat oświęcimski”
- Swedish: “Oświęcim powiat”
- Turkish: “Oswiecim ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Oswiecim İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Oświęcim ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Oświęcim İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Oświęcim”
- Turkish: “Powiat Oswiecimski”
- Turkish: “Powiat Oświęcimski”
- Ukrainian: “Освенцимський повіт”
- Ukrainian: “Освенцімський повіт”
- Ukrainian: “Освєнцімський повіт”
- Ukrainian: “Осьвенцімський повіт”
- Vietnamese: “Oświęcimski”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oświęcim County”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oświęcim”
- Welsh: “Sir Oświęcim”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Klucznikowice and Stare Stawy.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Soła and Przemsza.
Małopolskie: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Kraków, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim, and Zakopane.
Curious Places to Discover
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