Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’

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.
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  • Type: Historic building
  • Description: building in Auschwitz I (main camp); central camp torture and execution facility
  • Also known as: “Block 11”, “Blok 11 Wewnętrzne więzienie ‘Blok śmierci’”, and “Death block”
  • Roof shape: hipped

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ and Execution wall.

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.

Memorial
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is a memorial.

Building
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is a building, which is situated 350 metres north of Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’.

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 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’

Latitude
50.02514° or 50° 1′ 31″ north
Longitude
19.2035° or 19° 12′ 13″ east
Levels
2
Height
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
9F2X26G3+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29945569
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­barracks
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­hipped
Wiki­data ID
Q2606188
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المبنى 11”
  • Armenian: “Բլոկ 11 (Օսվենցիմ)”
  • Armenian: “Բլոկ 11”
  • Asturian: “Blocu 11”
  • Belarusian: “Блок смерці”
  • Catalan: “Bloc 11”
  • Dutch: “blok 11”
  • Dutch: “Blok 11”
  • French: “Block 11”
  • German: “Block 11 Strafbunker Lagergefangnis ‘Todesblock’”
  • German: “Block 11”
  • Greek: “Μπλοκ 11”
  • Greek: “Μπλοκ του θανάτου”
  • Hebrew: “בלוק 11”
  • Hungarian: “11. blokk (büntetőbunker, „halálblokk”)”
  • Indonesian: “Blok 11”
  • Italian: “Blocco 11 di Auschwitz”
  • Italian: “Blocco 11”
  • Italian: “blocco della morte”
  • Italian: “Kommandanturarrest”
  • Persian: “بلوک ۱۱”
  • Russian: “Блок 11 концлагеря «Освенцим»”
  • Russian: “Блок 11 концлагеря Освенцим”
  • Swedish: “Block 11”

Notable Places Nearby

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

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