Auschwitz 3: Monowitz

Almost nothing remains of the former Auschwitz subcamp: Monowitz, which was the largest of the roughly 40 subcamps collectively known as Auschwitz III. A captured German document from November 1943 states Monowitz then had approximately 7,000 inmates, who worked at the huge IG Farben industrial complex known as the Buna Works. 

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The monument to those killed in the Auschwitz Buna-Monowice "extermination camp"

Location of the above memorial arrowed, it is apparently
in front of the former IG Farben Auschwitz plant site,
but is now opposite an Olympic sized swimming pool

One of four tablets at the above memorial each in a different language

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HERE IN THE YEARS 

1941 - 1945

UPON THE SITE OF THE FORMER

EXTERMINATION CAMP

AUSCHWITZ

BUNA-MONOWICE

THE NAZI PERPETRATORS

OF THE GENOCIDE

KILLED ABOUT 

30000

POLITICAL

AND WAR PRISONERS

OF VARIOUS NATIONALITIES

WE HONOUR

THEIR MEMORY

THE COMMUNITY

OF THE OSWIECIM DISTRICT

Concrete structure somewhere around Monowitz camp, my taxi-driver
claimed people hid in it during air-raids, it did appear to have walls
several feet thick, although you can't tell that from this photo

Catholic shrine on the site of the former Monowitz camp

Location of the Catholic shrine on the site of the former Nazi
concentration camp Monowitz. It is now a residential area. 

Memorial tablet at the above shrine

A duck eating from a bucket in the garden of a
private house  opposite the Catholic shrine on the
site of the site of the former Monowitz camp 

Original fence of the camp I was told by my taxi-driver, who had
featured extensively in a BBC radio documentary on Auschwitz
back in 1995, he played me a recording of the show.

The site below features photos of the former

camp and a detailed history of Monowitz

http://www.wollheim-memorial.de/en/monowitz_monowice_fabrik_und_lagergelaende_nach_1945_2