Crematorium №2 Complex (Brzezinka)
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museum, Second World War 1939-1945, ruins, crematorium
Auschwitz II's Crematorium 2 complex with its underground gas chamber functioned from March 1943 until November 1944. According to the German authorities, 1,440 corpses could be burned here every 24 hours. It was blown up by the SS on January 20th 1945
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°2'1"N 19°10'9"E
- Site of Pławy Concentration Camp 0.6 km
- WWII Auschwitz Victims' Cremains Dumping Ground 1.2 km
- Former Auschwitz II Birkenau Extermination Camp 1.2 km
- "Mexico" Section (Auschwitz II Camp) 1.2 km
- Lager I "Leonhard Haag" WWII Nazi Labor Camp 5.4 km
- WWII Auschwitz Restricted Area (Interessengebiet KL Auschwitz) 5.4 km
- WWII Era IG Farben Barracks Complex 5.7 km
- Dwory S.A. Chemical Works (former I.G. Farben Buna Werke) 6.1 km
- Lager VII WWII Nazi Labor Camp 7 km
- Lager IV "Auschwitz III" / "Monowitz-Dorfrand" / "Buna" WWII German Nazi Labor Camp 8.4 km
- Former Auschwitz II Birkenau Extermination Camp 0.5 km
- Gypsy Block (B IIe) 0.5 km
- Male Block (B IId) 0.6 km
- Transit Unit (B IIc) 0.7 km
- Jewish Block (B IIb) 0.8 km
- Men's Quarantine Unit (B lla) 0.9 km
- Judenrampe - Prisoner Unloading Area (Until Early 1944) 1.4 km
- Oswiecim Central Station 2.2 km
- Extension Camp 2.4 km
- Former Auschwitz I Concentration Camp 2.6 km