Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’

Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’ is a historic building in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’ is situated nearby to the historic building Block 23, as well as near “Arbeit macht frei” Gate.

Type: Historic building
Description: Cell block at Auschwitz I
Also known as: “Block 24” and “Blok 24 ‘Dom lalek’”
Roof shape: half-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 230 metres south of Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’.

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 250 metres south of Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’.

Gas Chamber/Crematory I

Building

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Gas Chamber/Crematory I is a building, which is situated 110 metres northeast of Block 24 ‘House of Dolls’.

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.