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. Between Block 10 and Block 11 stood the "Death Wall" (reconstructed after the war) where thousands of prisoners were lined up for execution by firing squad. [1]

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, escape attempts or aid to escapees, or apprehension while escaping.

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.

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.

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.

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 11 where prisoners were hanged on their hands tied up on their backs. It …

Located in the yard at the side of block 11. The condemned were led to the wall for execution. SS men shot several thousand people there—mostly Polish political prisoners and, above all, members of clandestine organizations.

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.

Jan Cupiał was arrested in June 1944 by the Gestapo for conspiracy activities in the Home Army. After a short stay in prison in Mysłowice, he was brought to Auschwitz and placed in Block No....

In the bunker of block 11, 84 Sinti and Roma were imprisoned, of which 54 were shot. Such was for example the fate of Stefan Siwak and Jan Buriański who attempted to escape from the camp, were caught, held in the bunker of block 11 and shot at the Wall of Death.