Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’

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.
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  • Type: Historic building
  • Description: brick structure in the Auschwitz I concentration camp
  • Also known as: “Block 10”, “Blok 10 Eksperymenty ‘medyczne’”, and “Mengele block”
  • Roof shape: half-hipped

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’ and Execution wall.

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.

Memorial
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is a memorial.

Building
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is a building, which is situated 320 metres north of Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’.

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 , , .

Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’

Latitude
50.02532° or 50° 1′ 31″ north
Longitude
19.20372° or 19° 12′ 13″ east
Levels
2
Height
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
9F2X26G3+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29945564
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­barracks
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­half-hipped
Wiki­data ID
Q3005436
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المربع 10”
  • Asturian: “Blocu 10”
  • Basque: “10. Blokea”
  • Belarusian: “Блок эксперыментаў”
  • Czech: “Blok 10”
  • Dutch: “Blok 10”
  • French: “Block 10”
  • German: “Block 10 (KZ Auschwitz)”
  • German: “Block 10 Versuchsstation für ‘medizinische’ Forschungen”
  • German: “Block 10”
  • Hebrew: “בלוק 10”
  • Hungarian: “10. blokk („orvostudományi kísérletek”)”
  • Indonesian: “Blok 10”
  • Italian: “Blocco 10 ‘esperimenti’ medici”
  • Italian: “Blocco 10 di Auschwitz I”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blokk 10”
  • Norwegian: “Blokk 10”
  • Persian: “بلوک ۱۰”
  • Spanish: “Bloque 10”
  • Swedish: “Block 10”
  • Ukrainian: “Блок 10”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Courtyard and Block 9 Camp Hospital Building (CHB).

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