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...
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The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp...
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mini-series adaptation of the novel, see The Tattooist of Auschwitz (miniseries). The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist...
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synthetic rubber. Most infamous at Auschwitz I, the original camp, was Block 11 and the courtyard between Blocks 10 and 11. High stone walls and a massive...
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Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941. Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942...
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January 1941, the Erkennungsdienst was based on the ground floor of block 26 in Auschwitz I, where there was a studio and darkroom. Bernhard Walter was director...
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Maximilian Grabner (category Auschwitz trial executions)
1948) was an Austrian Gestapo chief in Auschwitz. At Auschwitz he was in command of the torture chamber Block 11, where he gained a reputation of brutality...
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Maximilian Kolbe (category Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active...
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on 11 November, 1941. This Mass took place just outside Block 11, a torture prison in Auschwitz I, visible from within the camp. Tensions escalated into...
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The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Poland's Supreme National Tribunal tried forty former staff of the Auschwitz concentration...
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