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 for executions and torture. …

Prisoners also underwent punishment in block 11, in regular cells, dark cells, or standing cells. Punishment here was usually connected with suspected sabotage, contact with civilians, …

Block No. 11 was known by the prisoners [of Auschwitz] as "the death block." It filled several roles, of which the most important was that of central camp jail.

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 at the yard of Block …

There were four standing cells at Auschwitz in the basement of Block 11, which measured about one square yard (0.84 m 2), and in which four persons were crammed, able only to stand.

A file of documents entitled Files of Block 11 contains 2,177 files of prisoners – men who stayed in block 11 of the Auschwitz I parent camp. The Files of Block 11 were kept by the block …

Auschwitz Block 11 Basement Cell - Block 11 was strictly isolated from the rest of the camp. Here were detainment, starvation, suffocation, and stand-up cells.