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Auschwitz-Birkenau

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 and Brzezinka in southern Poland, some 60 km from .
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  • Type: Nazi concentration camp
  • Description: German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II
  • Also known as: “Au.”, “Auschwitz”, “Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration and Extermination Camp”, “Auschwitz concentration camp”, “Auschwitz death camp”, “Birkenau”, “KZ Auschwitz”, and “Oświęcim”

Places of Interest

Highlights include German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’.

Museum
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Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.

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.

Historic building
Block 11 was the name of a brick building in , 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.

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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 , , .

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

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Latitude
50.0358° or 50° 2′ 9″ north
Longitude
19.1783° or 19° 10′ 42″ east
Open location code
9F2X25PH+88
Wiki­data ID
Q7341
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Auschwitz-Birkenau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Auschwitz-konsentrasiekamp”
  • Albanian: “Kampi Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Albanian: “Kampi i përqendrimit i Aushvicit”
  • Arabic: “أوشفيتز بيركينو”
  • Arabic: “أوشفيتز”
  • Arabic: “مركز اعتقال أوشفيتز”
  • Arabic: “معتقل أوشفيتز”
  • Arabic: “معسكر أوشفيتز بيركينو”
  • Arabic: “معسكر أوشفيتز”
  • Arabic: “معسكر أوشفيتس للإبادة”
  • Arabic: “معسكر أوشفيتس”
  • Arabic: “معسكر اعتقال اوشفيتز بيركيناو”
  • Armenian: “Օսվենցիմ”
  • Assamese: “অশউইৎজ নিৰ্যাতন শিবিৰ”
  • Asturian: “Auschwitz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Auşvits həbs düşərgəsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Auşvitz həbs düşərgəsi”
  • Balinese: “Kamp konséntrasi Auschwitz”
  • Basque: “Auschwitz”
  • Belarusian: “Асвенцім”
  • Belarusian: “Асвенцым”
  • Belarusian: “Асьвенцім”
  • Belarusian: “Аўшвіц”
  • Bengali: “অশউইৎজ বন্দী শিবির”
  • Bosnian: “Koncentracijski logor Auschwitz”
  • Bosnian: “Koncentracioni logor Auschwitz”
  • Breton: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Bulgarian: “Аушвиц”
  • Bulgarian: “Освиенцим”
  • Burmese: “အော့ဇဝစ်အကျဉ်းစခန်း”
  • Catalan: “Auschwitz”
  • Cebuano: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەمپی ئاوشڤیتز”
  • Chinese: “奥斯威辛集中营”
  • Chinese: “奥斯维兹”
  • Chinese: “奥斯维辛集中营”
  • Chinese: “奧修維茲集中營”
  • Chinese: “奧斯威辛集中營”
  • Chinese: “奧斯維辛集中營”
  • Chinese: “奧許維茲集中營”
  • Croatian: “Koncentracijski logor Auschwitz”
  • Croatian: “Sabirni logor Auschwitz”
  • Czech: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Czech: “Auschwitz”
  • Czech: “Koncentrační tábor Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Czech: “Koncentrační tábor Osvětim”
  • Czech: “Osvětim-Březinka”
  • Danish: “Auschwitz koncentrationslejr”
  • Danish: “Auschwitz”
  • Dutch: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Dutch: “Auschwitz-concentratiekamp”
  • Dutch: “Auschwitz”
  • Dutch: “concentratiekamp Auschwitz”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭŝvico”
  • Estonian: “Auschwitzi koonduslaager”
  • Estonian: “Oświęcimi koonduslaager”
  • Faroese: “Auschwitz”
  • Finnish: “Auschwitz”
  • Finnish: “Auschwitzin keskitysleiri”
  • French: “Auschwitz”
  • Friulian: “Auschwitz”
  • Galician: “Auschwitz”
  • Galician: “campo de concentración de Auschwitz”
  • Georgian: “აუშვიცის საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკი”
  • Georgian: “ოსვენციმის საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკი”
  • German: “Auschwitz-Birkenau – Deutsches nationalsozialistisches Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager (1940-1945)”
  • German: “Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • German: “Konzentrationslager Auschwitz”
  • German: “KZ Auschwitz”
  • Greek: “Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Άουσβιτς”
  • Guarani: “Auschwitz”
  • Hebrew: “אושוויץ-בירקנאו”
  • Hebrew: “אושוויץ”
  • Hindi: “औशविज़ का बंदी शिविर”
  • Hungarian: “auschwitz–birkenaui koncentrációs tábor”
  • Hungarian: “auschwitzi koncentrációs tábor”
  • Hungarian: “Auschwitzi koncentrációs tábor”
  • Icelandic: “Auschwitz”
  • Indonesian: “Auschwitz”
  • Indonesian: “Kamp konsentrasi Auschwitz”
  • Irish: “Campa Géibhinn Auschwitz”
  • Italian: “Auschwitz”
  • Italian: “campo di concentramento di Auschwitz”
  • Italian: “Campo di concentramento di Auschwitz”
  • Japanese: “アウシュヴィッツ＝ビルケナウ強制収容所”
  • Javanese: “Barak konsèntrasi Auschwitz”
  • Javanese: “Barak Konsèntrasi Auschwitz”
  • Kazakh: “Освенцим лагері”
  • Kölsch: “Konzentratiunslajer Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Korean: “아우슈비츠 강제 수용소”
  • Kurdish: “Kampa komkirinê ya Auschwitzê”
  • Ladino: “Auschwitz”
  • Lao: “ຄ້າຍກັກກັນເອົາສວິທສ໌ (Auschwitz)”
  • Lao: “ຄ້າຍກັກກັນເອົາສວິທສ໌”
  • Latin: “Auschwitz (castra carceralia)”
  • Latin: “Auschwitz”
  • Latvian: “Aušvicas koncentrācijas nometne”
  • Lithuanian: “Aušvico koncentracijos stovykla”
  • Lombard: “Auschwitz”
  • Low German: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Low German: “koncentratykamp Auschwitz”
  • Luxembourgish: “KZ Auschwitz”
  • Macedonian: “Аушвиц”
  • Malay: “Kem tahanan Auschwitz”
  • Malay: “Kem tumpuan Auschwitz”
  • Malayalam: “ഓഷ് വിറ്റ്സ് തടങ്കൽപ്പാളയം”
  • Malayalam: “ഓഷ്‌വിറ്റ്സ് തടങ്കൽപ്പാളയം”
  • Malayalam: “ഓഷ്‌വിറ്റ്സ്”
  • Maltese: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Maltese: “Auschwitz”
  • Manx: “Sleih-champ Auschwitz”
  • Marathi: “आउश्वित्झ छळछावणी”
  • Minangkabau: “Barak konsentrasi Auschwitz”
  • Minangkabau: “Kamp konsentrasi Auschwitz”
  • Mingrelian: “აუშვიციშ საკონცენტრაციე კარე”
  • Mongolian: “Аушвиц”
  • Mongolian: “аушвйтз”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لموعتاقال د أوشڤيتس”
  • Nepali: “अश्विज कन्सन्ट्रेसन क्याम्प”
  • Newari: “अश्विज कन्सन्ट्रेसन क्याम्प”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Auschwitz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Auschwitz”
  • Norwegian: “Auschwitz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Auschwitz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Camp d’Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਉਸ਼ਵਿਤਸ ਤਸੀਹਾ ਕੈਂਪ”
  • Persian: “آشویتس-برکناو”
  • Persian: “اردوگاه آشویتس”
  • Polish: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Polish: “Były Nazistowski Niemiecki Obóz Koncentracyjny i Zagłady Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Polish: “KL Auschwitz”
  • Polish: “Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Polish: “Obóz Koncentracyjny Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Portuguese: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Portuguese: “Auschwitz”
  • Pushto: “د اجباري کار اشویتس کمپ”
  • Romanian: “Lagărul de concentrare Auschwitz”
  • Romanian: “Lagărul de exterminare Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Russian: “концлагерь Освенцим”
  • Russian: “Освенцим”
  • Sardinian: “Campu de cuncentramentu de Auschwitz”
  • Scots: “Auschwitz concentration camp”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Campa-dùmhlachaidh Auschwitz”
  • Serbian: “Аушвиц”
  • Serbian: “Логор Аушвиц”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Auschwitz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Koncentracijski logor Auschwitz”
  • Sinhala: “අවුෂ්විට්ස් සිර කඳවුර”
  • Slovak: “Koncentračný tábor Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Slovak: “Koncentračný tábor Auschwitz”
  • Slovenian: “Koncentracijsko taborišče Auschwitz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آوشویتس حبس دوشرگه‌سی”
  • Spanish: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Spanish: “campo de concentracion de Auschwitz”
  • Spanish: “campo de concentración de Auschwitz”
  • Spanish: “Campo de concentración de Auschwitz”
  • Swahili: “Kambi ya Auschwitz”
  • Swedish: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Swedish: “Auschwitz”
  • Swiss German: “KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Tagalog: “Kampo ng konsentrasyon sa Auschwitz”
  • Tamil: “அவுஷ்விட்ஸ் வதை முகாம்”
  • Tatar: “Auşwitz”
  • Tatar: “Osventsim”
  • Thai: “ค่ายกักกันเอาช์วิทซ์”
  • Turkish: “Auschwitz Birkenau”
  • Turkish: “Auschwitz toplama kampı”
  • Turkish: “Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Turkish: “KZ Auschwitz”
  • Ukrainian: “Аушвіц”
  • Ukrainian: “Освенцім”
  • Urdu: “آؤشوِٹس حراستی کیمپ”
  • Urdu: “آوشویتز حراستی کیمپ”
  • Uzbek: “Osvensim konslageri”
  • Venetian: “Canpo de conçentramento de Auschwitz”
  • Venetian: “Canpo de consentramento de Auschwitz”
  • Vietnamese: “Auschwitz”
  • Vietnamese: “Trại tập trung Auschwitz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kampo hin Konsentrasyon ha Auschwitz”
  • Welsh: “Auschwitz”
  • Western Frisian: “Auschwitz”
  • Western Panjabi: “آشوٹز بندی کیمپ”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥斯威辛集中营”
  • Yiddish: “אוישוויץ”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧斯威辛集中營”
  • “Auschwitz”

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