Postal barracks

Postal barracks is a historic building in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Postal barracks is situated nearby to the historic building Block 26, as well as near Block 25.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ and Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’.

Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’

Historic building

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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 130 metres southeast of Postal barracks.

Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’

Historic building

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Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’ is a historic building, which is situated 150 metres northeast of Postal barracks.

Execution wall

Memorial

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Execution wall is a memorial, which is situated 160 metres southeast of Postal barracks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Rajsko.

Oświęcim

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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.