Prisoner Hospital Building (PHB)

Prisoner Hospital Building (PHB) is a historic building in , , . Prisoner Hospital Building (PHB) is situated nearby to the historic building , as well as near .

Places of Interest Nearby

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

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.

Historic building
Photo: Fallaner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic building, which is situated 200 metres north of Prisoner Hospital Building (PHB).

Memorial
Photo: Superchilum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Rajsko.

Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in Province in southern , 60 km west of . 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.

Village
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is a in the administrative district of , within , , in southern Poland.

Village
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is a village in southern , about 3 kilometres from , in the district of , , .

Prisoner Hospital Building (PHB)

Latitude
50.02565° or 50° 1′ 32″ north
Longitude
19.20304° or 19° 12′ 11″ east
Levels
2
Height
12 metres (39 feet)
Roof shape
half-hipped
Open location code
9F2X26G3+76
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29945541
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­barracks
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Italian—“Prisoner Hospital Building (PHB)” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Блок шпітальны”
  • German: “Häftlingskrankenbau (HKB) block 21”
  • Hungarian: “21. blokk (fogolykórház)”
  • Italian: “Blocco 21 Edificio dell’ospedale per i prigionieri”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Block 20 Camp Hospital Building (CHB) and SS Laundry.

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