Małopolskie
Oświęcim County
Oświęcim

Effects storage ‘Kanada II’

The Kanada warehouses, also known as Effektenlager or simply Kanada, were storage facilities in the in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: Warehouses in the Auschwitz concentration camp, occupied Poland, that stored looted prisoners‘ property
  • Also known as: “Effektenlager”, “Kanada”, “Kanada warehouses, Auschwitz”, and “Magazyny rzeczy zagrabionych pomordowanym ‘Kanada II’”

Places of Interest

Highlights include German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Bath/Disinfestation facility ‘Sauna’.

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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is a historic building.

Ruins
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is a ruins.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Auschwitz-Birkenau and Pławy.

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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 .

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

Village
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is a village in southern , about 3 kilometres from , in the district of , , .

Effects storage ‘Kanada II’

Latitude
50.03912° or 50° 2′ 21″ north
Longitude
19.16908° or 19° 10′ 9″ east
Open location code
9F2X25Q9+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 680427589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q1723436
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Polish—“Effects storage ‘Kanada II’” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “BIIg”
  • Dutch: “Kanada”
  • Estonian: “Kanada (Auschwitz)”
  • Estonian: “Kanada”
  • French: “Entrepôts du Kanada”
  • German: “Effektenlager „Kanada II“”
  • German: “Effektenlager Kanada”
  • German: “Kanada”
  • Hebrew: “קומנדו-קנדה”
  • Hungarian: “„Kanada II” raktártábor”
  • Hungarian: “Kanada”
  • Italian: “Effektenlager”
  • Italian: “Kanada di Auschwitz”
  • Italian: “magazzini Kanada”
  • Persian: “انبارهای کانادا، آشویتس”
  • Polish: “Kanada”
  • Polish: “Magazyn rzeczy zagrabionych pomordowanym ‘Kanada II’”

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