Pod Olszyną
Pod Olszyną is a neighborhood in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Pod Olszyną is situated nearby to the suburb Stare Stawy, as well as near the neighborhood Nowe Stawy.Places of Interest
Highlights include Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ and Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’.
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.
Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’
Historic building
Photo: Fallaner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’ is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zaborze and Rajsko.
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.
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.
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.
Pod Olszyną
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.01861° or 50° 1′ 7″ northLongitude
19.21768° or 19° 13′ 4″ eastOpen location code
9F2X2699+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 3009738353OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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