Effects storage ‘Kanada II’
The Kanada warehouses, also known as Effektenlager or simply Kanada, were storage facilities in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- 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 Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bath/Disinfestation facility ‘Sauna’.
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.
Bath/Disinfestation facility ‘Sauna’
Historic building
Photo: Pimke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bath/Disinfestation facility ‘Sauna’ is a historic building.
Gas chamber/Crematorium IV
Ruins
Photo: Diether, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gas chamber/Crematorium IV is a ruins.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pławy and Brzezinka.
Pławy
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pławy 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.
Jedlina
Village
Jedlina is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bojszowy, within Bieruń-Lędziny County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Effects storage ‘Kanada II’
- Categories: storage and camp
- Location: Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.03912° or 50° 2′ 21″ northLongitude
19.16908° or 19° 10′ 9″ eastOpen location code
9F2X25Q9+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 680427589OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q1723436
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“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’”
- Spanish: “Kanada”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 5 and 11.
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