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- Former Auschwitz I site
Block 11 was called by prisoners "the Block of Death". In...
- Block 11. Starvation cell
Virtual Tour Block 11. Starvation cell... In the...
- Former Auschwitz I site
Prisoners also underwent punishment in block 11, in regular cells, dark cells, or standing cells. Punishment here was usually connected with suspected sabotage, contact with civilians, escape attempts or aid to escapees, or apprehension while escaping.
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. Between Block 10 and Block 11 stood the "Death Wall" (reconstructed after the war) where thousands of prisoners were lined up for execution by firing squad. [1]
Virtual Tour Block 11. Starvation cell... In the neighborhood. Oprowadzanie zdalne PE MCEAH
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. It was a complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp. It was located at the town of Oswiecim near the prewar German-Polish border in Eastern Upper Silesia, an area annexed to Germany in 1939.
There were four standing cells at Auschwitz in the basement of Block 11, which measured about one square yard (0.84 m 2), and in which four persons were crammed, able only to stand.
Block 11 was called by prisoners "the Block of Death". In the cellars there was the camp detention house and on the closed yard shoting executions were conducted. Posts at the yard of Block 11 where prisoners were hanged on their hands tied up on their backs. It was one of the camp punishments.
