Oświęcim
Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków. 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.Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
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Notable Places in the Area
Jewish Center
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The Auschwitz Jewish Center is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to preserve the…
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
Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Auschwitz-Birkenau is the generic name given to the cluster of concentration, labour and…
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.
Zaborze
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Zaborze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Oświęcim
- Type: Town with 39,700 residents
- Description: town in the Lesser Poland province, Poland
- Categories: urban municipality of Poland and locality
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.0382° or 50° 2' 18" northLongitude
19.2214° or 19° 13' 17" eastPopulation
39,700Elevation
232 metres (761 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL OSWOpen Location Code
9F2X26QC+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 31900891OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3089658Wikidata ID
Q7342Oświęcim Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Oświęcim
- Arabic: أشفنشم
- Armenian: Օսվենցիմ
- Aymara: Auschwitz
- Aymara: Oświęcim
- Azerbaijani: Osventsim
- Basque: Oświęcim
- Belarusian: Асвенцым
- Belarusian: Асвенцім
- Belarusian: Асьвенцім
- Bosnian: Oświęcim
- Bulgarian: Освиенцим
- Catalan: Oświęcim
- Cebuano: Auschwitz
- Cebuano: Oświęcim
- Chechen: Освенцим
- Chinese: Oświęcim
- Chinese: 奥斯威辛
- Chinese: 奧斯威辛
- Croatian: Oświęcim
- Czech: Auschwitz
- Czech: Osvěnčín
- Czech: Osvětim
- Czech: Oświęcim
- Danish: Auschwitz
- Danish: Oświęcim
- Dutch: Auschwitz (stad)
- Dutch: Auschwitz
- Dutch: Oswiecim (stad)
- Dutch: Oświęcim
- Egyptian Arabic: اشفنشم
- English: Auschwitz
- English: Aushvits
- English: Aushvitsa
- English: Aušvica
- English: Oshpetzin
- English: Oshpitsin
- English: Oshvitsin
- English: Oshvyentsim
- English: Osvienčim
- English: Osvyenchim
- English: Osvětim
- English: Ushpitzin
- English: Освенцим
- English: אָשפּיצין
- English: אושויץ (פולין)
- Esperanto: Oświęcim
- Estonian: Oświęcim
- Finnish: Auschwitz
- Finnish: Oświęcim
- French: Auschwitz
- French: Oświęcim
- Georgian: ოსვენციმი
- German: Auschwitz
- German: Oświęcim
- Greek: Οσβιέτσιμ
- Greek: Οσφιέντσιμ
- Hebrew: אושוויינצ'ים
- Hindi: औसवेसिम
- Hungarian: Oświęcim
- Icelandic: Oświęcim
- Indonesian: Oświęcim
- Interlingue: Oświęcim
- Irish: Auschwitz
- Irish: Oświęcim
- Italian: Auschwitz
- Italian: Oświęcim
- Japanese: Oświęcim
- Japanese: オシフィエンチム
- Javanese: Oświęcim
- Kashubian: Oświęcim
- Kirghiz: Освенцим
- Korean: 오시비엥침
- Latin: Osvecimia
- Latvian: Osvencima
- Lithuanian: Osvencimas
- Lombard: Oświęcim
- Luxembourgish: Auschwitz
- Luxembourgish: Oświęcim
- Macedonian: Аушвиц
- Macedonian: Ошвјенќим
- Malay: Oświęcim
- Manx: Oświęcim
- Marathi: ओश्फिन्चिम
- Min Nan Chinese: Oświęcim
- Mingrelian: ოშვიენჩიმი
- Moksha: Освенцим
- Norwegian: Auschwitz
- Norwegian: Oświęcim
- Norwegian Bokmål: Auschwitz
- Norwegian Bokmål: Oświęcim
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Oświęcim
- Occitan (post 1500): Oświęcim
- Persian: اوشویمچین
- Persian: اوشوینچیم
- Polish: Oświęcim
- Portuguese: Oświęcim
- Quechua: Auschwitz
- Quechua: Oświęcim
- Romanian: Aušvica
- Romanian: Oświęcim
- Russian: Освенцим
- Scots: Oświęcim
- Serbian: Освјенћим
- Serbo-Croatian: Oświęcim
- Silesian: Uośwjyńćim
- Slovak: Osvienčim
- Slovenian: Oświęcim
- South Azerbaijani: اوشویمچین
- Spanish: Auschwitz
- Spanish: Oświęcim
- Swedish: Auschwitz
- Swedish: Oświęcim
- Tatar: Очвентсим
- Thai: ออชฟีแยญชิม
- Thai: เอาช์วิทซ์
- Tornedalen Finnish: Auschwitz
- Tornedalen Finnish: Oświęcim
- Turkish: Auschwitz
- Turkish: Aushvits
- Turkish: Aushvitsa
- Turkish: Aušvica
- Turkish: Ohşvintim
- Turkish: Oshpetzin
- Turkish: Oshpitsin
- Turkish: Oshvitsin
- Turkish: Oshvyentsim
- Turkish: Osvienčim
- Turkish: Osvyenchim
- Turkish: Osvětim
- Turkish: Oświęcim
- Turkish: Oşvinçim
- Turkish: Ushpitzin
- Turkish: Освенцим
- Turkish: אָשפּיצין
- Turkish: אושויץ (פולין)
- Ukrainian: Освенцим
- Urdu: اوشوینچم
- Uzbek: Osvensim
- Vietnamese: Oświęcim
- Waray (Philippines): Oświęcim
- Western Frisian: Auschwitz
- Wu Chinese: 奥斯威辛
- Yiddish: Oshpitsin
- Yiddish: אושויץ (פולין)
- Yiddish: אשפעצין
- Yue Chinese: 奧斯威辛
- Oswiecim
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