Camp commandant’s office
Camp commandant’s office is a historic building in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Camp commandant’s office is situated nearby to the historic building Block 1, as well as near Block 2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 270 metres southwest of Camp commandant’s office.
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 290 metres southwest of Camp commandant’s office.
Gas Chamber/Crematory I
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gas Chamber/Crematory I is a building, which is situated 120 metres northwest of Camp commandant’s office.
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.
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.
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.
Camp commandant’s office
- Type: Historic building
- Roof shape: half-hipped
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.02725° or 50° 1′ 38″ northLongitude
19.20595° or 19° 12′ 21″ eastLevels
2Height
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
9F2X26G4+W9OpenStreetMap ID
way 202526084OpenStreetMap feature
building=barracksOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=half-hipped
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Italian—“Camp commandant’s office” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Камендант канцлагера”
- German: “Lagerkommandantur”
- Hungarian: “Táborparancsnokság”
- Italian: “Ufficio del comandante del campo”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Block 1 and Block 2.
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