SS infirmary
SS infirmary is a hospital building in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. SS infirmary is situated nearby to the historic building Block 22, as well as near the building Gas Chamber/Crematory I.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hospital building
- Also known as: “Szpitalik SS”
- Roof shape: hipped
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 300 metres south of SS infirmary.
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 320 metres south of SS infirmary.
Gas Chamber/Crematory I
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gas Chamber/Crematory I is a building.
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.
SS infirmary
- Categories: building, historic site, historic building, and health care
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.02793° or 50° 1′ 41″ northLongitude
19.20453° or 19° 12′ 16″ eastLevels
2Height
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
9F2X26H3+5ROpenStreetMap ID
way 29945518OpenStreetMap feature
building=hospitalOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=hipped
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Italian—“SS infirmary” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Шпіталь СС”
- German: “SS-Krankenrevier”
- Hungarian: “SS gyengélkedő”
- Italian: “Infermeria SS”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Block 22 and Block 23.
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