Former Auschwitz I site
Block 11
Author: Paweł Sawicki
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
Author: Paweł Sawicki
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.
The yard of Block 11
Author: Paweł Sawicki
In the middle—the Death Wall where shoting executions took place. Block 11 on the right and Block 10, where lived women, victims of sterilisation experiments of Dr Carl Clauberg on the left.
Standing cells
Author: Pawel Sawicki
Standing cells
Starvation cell
Author: Pawel Sawicki
The starvation cell in the cellars of Block 11. The candle was given by the pope John Paul II, as this was the cell of father Maksymilian Kolbe.
The cellars
Author: Pawel Sawicki
The cellars of Block 11 - the camp prison
Changing room
Author: Pawel Sawicki
Changing room
Changing room
Author: Pawel Sawicki
The room where prisoners had to strip before their execution
Changing room
Author: Pawel Sawicki
The room where prisoners had to strip before their execution
Block 11
Author: Pawel Sawicki
The room for functionary prisoners
Block 11
Author: Pawel Sawicki
The room for functionary prisoners
SS man on duty office
Author: Pawel Sawicki
SS man on duty office
SS man on duty office
Author: Pawel Sawicki
SS man on duty office
SS man on duty office
Author: Pawel Sawicki
SS man on duty office
Summary court room
Author: Pawel Sawicki
German summary court room in Block 11
Summary court room
Author: Pawel Sawicki
German summary court room in Block 11
Wall of death - stones
Author: Paweł Sawicki
There are hundreds of stones left by visitors at the Wall of Death standing on the yard od Block 11 where shoting executions took place
A room in Block 11
Author: Paweł Sawicki
One of the rooms in Block 11
Rosary and a photograph
Author: Paweł Sawicki
Rosary and a photograph put into the Death Wall
