Execution wall
Execution wall is a memorial in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Execution wall is situated nearby to Courtyard, as well as near the historic building Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’.Photo: Superchilum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
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.
Gas Chamber/Crematory I
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gas Chamber/Crematory I is a building, which is situated 340 metres north of Execution wall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oświęcim and Rajsko.
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.
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.
Brzezinka
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brzezinka is a village in southern Poland, about 3 kilometres from Oświęcim, in the district of Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Execution wall
- Type: Memorial
- Also known as: “Auschwitz death wall”
- Categories: wall and historic site
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.02511° or 50° 1′ 30″ northLongitude
19.20385° or 19° 12′ 14″ eastOpen location code
9F2X26G3+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 329828970OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q14912544
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Slovak—“Execution wall” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сцяна смерці”
- Dutch: “Dodenmuur van Auschwitz”
- French: “Mur d’exécution”
- German: “Schwarze Wand (KZ Auschwitz)”
- German: “Schwarze Wand / Todeswand”
- German: “Schwarze Wand”
- German: “Todeswand”
- Hungarian: “Fekete fal (kivégzőhely)”
- Italian: “Muro di esecuzione”
- Polish: “Ściana Śmierci”
- Russian: “Стена смерти”
- Slovak: “Stena smrti”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Courtyard and Block 9 Camp Hospital Building (CHB).
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