Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp

Background

Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (Arbeitslager) run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942 to 1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps" (KL Auschwitz III-Aussenlager). In November 1944 the Germans renamed it Monowitz concentration camp, after the village of Monowice (German: Monowitz) where it was built, in the annexed portion of Poland. SS Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Heinrich Schwarz was commandant from November 1943 to January 1945. The SS established the camp in October 1942 at the behest of IG Farben executives to provide slave labor for their Buna Werke (Buna Works) industrial complex.

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World Prisons. (2026). Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/auschwitz-iii-monowitz-concentration-camp

"Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/auschwitz-iii-monowitz-concentration-camp.

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