Kościół pw. Miłosierdzia Bożego w Oświęcimiu

Kościół pw. Miłosierdzia Bożego w Oświęcimiu is a church in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie which is located on Osiedle Rotmistrza Witolda Pileckiego. Kościół pw. Miłosierdzia Bożego w Oświęcimiu is situated nearby to the museum Centrum Obsługi Odwiedzających Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau, as well as near the park Plac Mariana Kołodzieja.

Type: Church
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Address: Osiedle Rotmistrza Witolda Pileckiego 31, Oświęcim, 32-600

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 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ is situated 530 metres south of Kościół pw. Miłosierdzia Bożego w Oświęcimiu.

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 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’ is situated 550 metres south of Kościół pw. Miłosierdzia Bożego w Oświęcimiu.

Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’

Historic building

Photo: Fallaner, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’ is a historic building, which is situated 310 metres south of Kościół pw. Miłosierdzia Bożego w Oświęcimiu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Brzezinka.

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.