🏙 Towns & cities
Oświęcim
town in the Lesser Poland province, Poland
🇵🇱 Poland · 50.0381, 19.2214
Oświęcim is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Oświęcim, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 1 more.
2 productions were filmed at 1 place inside Oświęcim rather than at Oświęcim itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.
“The film is both set and filmed at Auschwitz and it was made with the participation of local inhabitants of Oświęcim, Red Army personnel and German prisoners of war as extras.”
Movies filmed in Oświęcim
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Oświęcim as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
Movies filmed elsewhere in Oświęcim
2 productions shot at 1 place inside Oświęcim, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Oświęcim itself.
- Schindler's List Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum per Wikipedia 1993
- Son of Saul Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum per Wikipedia 2015
Filming locations nearby
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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museum and memorial
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🏙 Towns & cities
Olkusz
🇵🇱 Poland
city of Poland
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🏙 Towns & cities
Katowice
🇵🇱 Poland
city in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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🏙 Towns & cities
Auschwitz
🇵🇱 Poland
German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Błędów Desert
🇵🇱 Poland
desert, protected area, south Poland
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women's camp
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Oświęcim?
4 productions are recorded as filmed in Oświęcim, 2 of them at places inside it, including The Zone of Interest (2023) and The Last Stage (1948). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Oświęcim?
The Zone of Interest (2023), covered by 43 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Oświęcim?
Oświęcim is in Poland, at 50.0381, 19.2214.
What other filming locations are near Oświęcim?
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Olkusz, Katowice, Auschwitz and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Aneta Lazurek, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.