Obóz
Obóz is a locality in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Obóz is situated nearby to the neighborhood Osiedle Witolda Pileckiego, as well as near Kamieniec.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include German Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz I) and Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’.
German Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz I)
Museum
Photo: Dnalor 01, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
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.
Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’
Historic building
Photo: VbCrLf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Rajsko
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
Rajsko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Obóz
- Type: Locality
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.02649° or 50° 1′ 35″ northLongitude
19.20404° or 19° 12′ 15″ eastOpen location code
9F2X26G3+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 3009730720OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Hungarian—“Obóz” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Канцлагер”
- German: “KL Auschwitz I (Stammlager)”
- Hungarian: “Tábor”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Block 17 and Block 16.
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