Execution Area (Auschwitz I Camp) (Oświęcim)
Poland /
Malopolskie /
Oswiecim /
Oświęcim
World
/ Poland
/ Malopolskie
/ Oswiecim
World / Poland / Lesser Poland
memorial, Second World War 1939-1945, historical layer / disappeared object
In this area, the first waves of prisoners were shot. Concerned about psychological effects of firing squad "responsibility" thoughts (and also of the day's end knee-deep blood and remains) upon the camp staff and on the clean-up sonderkommando crew-inmates, authorities sought a more clean method of mass-killing. They sealed openings in a building on the other side of the camp and used the building as a gas chamber ---first with carbon monoxide gas as the lethal agent. Perfecting their methods, the government killers moved on to pelletized cleaner Zyklon-B to generate deadly fumes quickly. The nearby Auschwitz II (Birkenau) camp was later built with four gas chambers using the Zyklon-B mass-killing method developed here at Auschwitz I.
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Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°1'29"N 19°12'11"E
- Prisoners' kitchen 0.3 km
- Females' Area (Auschwitz II) 2.2 km
- Former Auschwitz II Birkenau Extermination Camp 3.5 km
- Memorial to former Monowitz prisoners 3.8 km
- Pomnik żołnierzy AK 43 km
- Reden 53 km
- Jewish Cemetery in Kromolow 55 km
- Chapel on the way to Kromolow 55 km
- Pilica Jewish Cemetary 57 km
- memorial of Red Army - WWII 68 km
- Former Auschwitz I Concentration Camp 0.3 km
- Extension Camp 0.7 km
- Oswiecim Central Station 1.4 km
- Men's Quarantine Unit (B lla) 2.2 km
- Jewish Block (B IIb) 2.3 km
- Females' Area (Auschwitz II) 2.3 km
- Transit Unit (B IIc) 2.4 km
- Male Block (B IId) 2.5 km
- Former Auschwitz II Birkenau Extermination Camp 2.5 km
- Gypsy Block (B IIe) 2.6 km