Camperlocatie in Oświęcim

Resistance movement in Auschwitz / 0.2 km

The organization of underground resistance movements in Auschwitz began in the second half of 1940, shortly after the camp became operational in May that year. In September 1940 Witold Pilecki, a Polish army captain, arrived in the camp (...) (mehr)

Block 10 / 0.4 km

Block 10 was a cellblock at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp where women and men were used as experimental subjects for German doctors. The experiments in Block 10 ranged from skin testing for reaction to relatively gentle substances to giving phenol injections to the heart for immediate dissection (...) (mehr)

Block 11 / 0.4 km

Block 11 was the name of a brick building in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Block was in the so-called Stammlager (Auschwitz I main camp) and was intended solely to punish prisoners through torture. Between the tenth and eleventh block stood the death wall (reconstructed after the war) where (...) (mehr)

Auschwitz cross / 0.5 km

The Auschwitz cross is a cross erected near the Auschwitz concentration camp. Carmelite nuns opened a convent near Auschwitz I in 1984. Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress called for the removal of the convent (...) (mehr)

International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz / 1.5 km

The International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz is an educational institution whose campus lies between the center of the Polish city of Oświęcim and the former German concentration camp of Auschwitz (...) (mehr)