Oświęcim
Oświęcim is a locality in Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Oświęcim is situated nearby to the village Zaborze, as well as near the suburb Stare Stawy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ and Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’.
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.
Jewish Center
Museum
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oświęcim and Auschwitz III (Monowitz).
Oświęcim
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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.
Auschwitz III (Monowitz)
Locality
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Monowitz was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942 to 1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps". Auschwitz III (Monowitz) is situated 3½ km northeast of Oświęcim.
Zaborze
Village
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Zaborze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Oświęcim
- Type: Locality with 18,300 residents
- Also known as: “Oswiecim”
- Location: Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.0144° or 50° 0′ 52″ northLongitude
19.2436° or 19° 14′ 37″ eastPopulation
18,300Elevation
245 metres (804 feet)Open location code
9F2X267V+QFGeoNames ID
7531141
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- Polish: “Oświęcim”
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