Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the generic name given to the cluster of concentration, labour and extermination camps established by the Nazis during the Second World War and located near the towns of Oświęcim and Brzezinka in southern Poland, some 60 km from Kraków.Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.
German Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz I)
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Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.
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.Localities in the Area
Oświęcim
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Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków.
Brzezinka
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Brzezinka is a village in southern Poland, about 3 kilometres from Oświęcim, in the district of Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Babice
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Babice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Type: Nazi concentration camp
- Description: German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II
- Categories: museum, extermination camp and architectural ensemble
- Location: Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.0358° or 50° 2' 9" northLongitude
19.1783° or 19° 10' 42" eastOpen Location Code
9F2X25PH+88Wikidata ID
Q7341Auschwitz-Birkenau Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Auschwitz-konsentrasiekamp
- Albanian: Kampi Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Albanian: Kampi i përqendrimit i Aushvicit
- Arabic: Kampo hin Konsentrasyon ha Auschwitz
- Arabic: أوشفيتز
- Arabic: أوشفيتز بيركينو
- Arabic: مركز اعتقال أوشفيتز
- Arabic: معتقل أوشفيتز
- Arabic: معسكر أوشفيتز
- Arabic: معسكر أوشفيتز بيركينو
- Arabic: معسكر أوشفيتس
- Arabic: معسكر أوشفيتس للإبادة
- Arabic: معسكر اعتقال اوشفيتز بيركيناو
- Armenian: Օսվենցիմ
- Assamese: অশউইৎজ নিৰ্যাতন শিবিৰ
- Asturian: Auschwitz
- Azerbaijani: Auşvits həbs düşərgəsi
- Azerbaijani: Auşvitz həbs düşərgəsi
- Balinese: Kamp konséntrasi Auschwitz
- Basque: Auschwitz
- Belarusian: Асвенцым
- Belarusian: Асвенцім
- Belarusian: Асьвенцім
- Belarusian: Аўшвіц
- Bengali: অশউইৎজ বন্দী শিবির
- Bosnian: Koncentracijski logor Auschwitz
- Bosnian: Koncentracioni logor Auschwitz
- Breton: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Bulgarian: Аушвиц
- Bulgarian: Освиенцим
- Burmese: အော့ဇဝစ်အကျဉ်းစခန်း
- Catalan: Auschwitz
- Cebuano: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Central Kurdish: ئاوشڤیتز
- Chinese: 奥斯威辛集中营
- Chinese: 奥斯维兹
- Chinese: 奥斯维辛集中营
- Chinese: 奧修維茲集中營
- Chinese: 奧斯威辛集中營
- Chinese: 奧斯維辛集中營
- Chinese: 奧許維茲集中營
- Croatian: Koncentracijski logor Auschwitz
- Croatian: Sabirni logor Auschwitz
- Czech: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Czech: Auschwitz
- Czech: Koncentrační tábor Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Czech: Koncentrační tábor Osvětim
- Czech: Osvětim-Březinka
- Danish: Auschwitz
- Danish: Auschwitz koncentrationslejr
- Dutch: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Dutch: Auschwitz-concentratiekamp
- Dutch: Auschwitz
- Dutch: concentratiekamp Auschwitz
- English: Au.
- English: Auschwitz
- English: Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
- English: Auschwitz concentration camp
- English: Auschwitz death camp
- English: Birkenau
- English: KZ Auschwitz
- Esperanto: Aŭŝvico
- Estonian: Auschwitzi koonduslaager
- Estonian: Oświęcimi koonduslaager
- Faroese: Auschwitz
- Finnish: Auschwitz
- Finnish: Auschwitzin keskitysleiri
- French: Auschwitz
- Friulian: Auschwitz
- Galician: Auschwitz
- Galician: campo de concentración de Auschwitz
- Georgian: აუშვიცის საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკი
- Georgian: ოსვენციმის საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკი
- German: Auschwitz-Birkenau – Deutsches nationalsozialistisches Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager (1940-1945)
- German: KZ Auschwitz
- German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
- German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Greek: Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Άουσβιτς
- Guarani: Auschwitz
- Hebrew: אושוויץ-בירקנאו
- Hebrew: אושוויץ
- Hindi: औशविज़ का बंदी शिविर
- Hungarian: Auschwitzi koncentrációs tábor
- Hungarian: auschwitzi koncentrációs tábor
- Hungarian: auschwitz–birkenaui koncentrációs tábor
- Icelandic: Auschwitz
- Indonesian: Kamp konsentrasi Auschwitz
- Irish: Campa Géibhinn Auschwitz
- Italian: campo di concentramento di Auschwitz
- Japanese: アウシュヴィッツ=ビルケナウ強制収容所
- Javanese: Barak Konsèntrasi Auschwitz
- Javanese: Barak konsèntrasi Auschwitz
- Kazakh: Освенцим лагері
- Korean: 아우슈비츠 강제 수용소
- Kurdish: Kampa komkirinê ya Auschwitzê
- Kölsch: Konzentratiunslajer Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Ladino: Auschwitz
- Lao: ຄ້າຍກັກກັນເອົາສວິທສ໌ (Auschwitz)
- Lao: ຄ້າຍກັກກັນເອົາສວິທສ໌
- Latin: Auschwitz (castra carceralia)
- Latin: Auschwitz
- Latvian: Aušvicas koncentrācijas nometne
- Lithuanian: Aušvico koncentracijos stovykla
- Lombard: Auschwitz
- Low German: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Low German: koncentratykamp Auschwitz
- Luxembourgish: KZ Auschwitz
- Macedonian: Аушвиц
- Malay: Kem tahanan Auschwitz
- Malay: Kem tumpuan Auschwitz
- Malayalam: ഓഷ് വിറ്റ്സ് തടങ്കൽപ്പാളയം
- Malayalam: ഓഷ്വിറ്റ്സ്
- Malayalam: ഓഷ്വിറ്റ്സ് തടങ്കൽപ്പാളയം
- Maltese: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Maltese: Auschwitz
- Manx: Sleih-champ Auschwitz
- Marathi: आउश्वित्झ छळछावणी
- Mongolian: Аушвиц
- Mongolian: аушвйтз
- Moroccan Arabic: لموعتاقال د أوشڤيتس
- Nepali: अश्विज कन्सन्ट्रेसन क्याम्प
- Newari: अश्विज कन्सन्ट्रेसन क्याम्प
- Norwegian: Auschwitz
- Norwegian Bokmål: Auschwitz
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Auschwitz
- Occitan (post 1500): Auschwitz
- Occitan (post 1500): Camp d'Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Panjabi: ਆਉਸ਼ਵਿਤਸ ਤਸੀਹਾ ਕੈਂਪ
- Persian: آشویتس-برکناو
- Persian: اردوگاه آشویتس
- Polish: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Polish: Były Nazistowski Niemiecki Obóz Koncentracyjny i Zagłady Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Polish: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Polish: Obóz Koncentracyjny Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Portuguese: Auschwitz
- Portuguese: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Pushto: د اجباري کار اشویتس کمپ
- Romanian: Lagărul de concentrare Auschwitz
- Romanian: Lagărul de exterminare Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Russian: Освенцим
- Russian: концлагерь Освенцим
- Sardinian: Campu de cuncentramentu de Auschwitz
- Scots: Auschwitz concentration camp
- Scottish Gaelic: Campa-dùmhlachaidh Auschwitz
- Serbian: Аушвиц
- Serbian: Логор Аушвиц
- Serbo-Croatian: Auschwitz
- Serbo-Croatian: Koncentracijski logor Auschwitz
- Sinhala: අවුෂ්විට්ස් සිර කඳවුර
- Slovak: Koncentračný tábor Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Slovenian: Koncentracijsko taborišče Auschwitz
- South Azerbaijani: آوشویتس حبس دوشرگهسی
- Spanish: Auschwitz
- Spanish: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Spanish: campo de concentracion de Auschwitz
- Spanish: campo de concentración de Auschwitz
- Swahili: Kambi ya Auschwitz
- Swedish: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Swedish: Auschwitz
- Swiss German: KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Tagalog: Kampo ng konsentrasyon sa Auschwitz
- Tamil: அவுஷ்விட்ஸ் வதை முகாம்
- Tatar: Auşwitz
- Tatar: Osventsim
- Thai: ค่ายกักกันเอาช์วิทซ์
- Turkish: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Turkish: Auschwitz Birkenau
- Turkish: Auschwitz toplama kampı
- Turkish: KZ Auschwitz
- Ukrainian: Аушвіц
- Ukrainian: Освенцім
- Urdu: آؤشوِٹس حراستی کیمپ
- Urdu: آوشویتز حراستی کیمپ
- Uzbek: Osvensim konslageri
- Venetian: Canpo de consentramento de Auschwitz
- Venetian: Canpo de conçentramento de Auschwitz
- Vietnamese: Trại tập trung Auschwitz
- Waray (Philippines): Kampo hin Konsentrasyon ha Auschwitz
- Welsh: Auschwitz
- Western Frisian: Auschwitz
- Western Panjabi: آشوٹز بندی کیمپ
- Wu Chinese: 奥斯威辛集中营
- Yiddish: אוישוויץ
- Yue Chinese: 奧斯威辛集中營
- Campo di concentramento di Auschwitz
- Koncentračný tábor Auschwitz
- کەمپی ئاوشڤیتز
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