@auschwitzxhibit 1/n Block 11 is one of the buildings located at the Auschwitz I camp. It is referred to as the "death block". First, it was marked as block number 13, later renamed to 11. The building housed the camp Gestapo headquarters and the arrest for prisoners suspected of, among others, 
@auschwitzxhibit 2/n activity in the resistance movement, contacts with civilians or an attempt to escape.
There were special cells in the basement, the so-called "standing cells". They were special bunkers of dimensions about 1 meter by 1meter in which 4-5 prisoners stood for the entire night
There were special cells in the basement, the so-called "standing cells". They were special bunkers of dimensions about 1 meter by 1meter in which 4-5 prisoners stood for the entire night
@auschwitzxhibit 3/n as a form of punishment. There were also hunger bunkers where prisoners sentenced to death were slowly starving. Prisoners were also killed with phenol injections. Among them, Father Maksymilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in exchange for another prisoner, died in Block 11.
@auschwitzxhibit 4/n At the beginning of September 1941, SS men carried out the first mass murder attempt using Cyclone B in the basement of the block. The victims were Soviet prisoners of war and sick Polish prisoners selected from the camp hospital.
Aquarel scene by Wladyslaw Siwek
Aquarel scene by Wladyslaw Siwek
@auschwitzxhibit 5/5 In the immediate vicinity of Block 11, there was the so-called "Death Wall", where the prisoners sentenced to death were shot in the back of the head with a handgun. Their corpses were transported to crematorium number 1 and cremated.
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