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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.
- Executions
Prisoners sent to the camp as hostages, or with their files...
- Flogging
In the main camp, prisoners were also flogged in the...
- Hanging
The last hangings came shortly before the liquidation of...
- The Penal Company
The penal company was first housed in block 3 in the main...
- The Post
The “post” was an especially painful punishment. It was...
- Shooting
Designated prisoners threw the corpses onto trucks or carts...
- Other Punishments
In the case of infractions that they regarded as especially...
- Starvation to Death
In 1941, the camp authorities punished prisoners by...
- Executions
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]
Auschwitz II-Birkenau; Panoramas. Panorama of Auschwitz I - a bird's eye view; ... Block 11. Standing cells; Block 11. Starvation cell; Gallows where camp commandant was executed; Crematorium I; Interior of gas chamber and crematorium I; Interior of gas chamber and crematorium I;
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.
In the cellars of the block, at the beginning of September 1941, the SS carried out the first test using Zyklon B for mass murder. The victims of this crime were Soviet POWs and sick Polish prisoners selected from the camp hospital.
At first, sentenced prisoners were shot dead in gravel pits (from which gravel was also extracted) around the camp, but later these shootings were conducted in the closed courtyard of Block 11. Those sentenced to death were led out of cells in the basement of this block and on the ground floor they had to strip naked.
