Monowitz concentration camp
Monowitz was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp 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".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Prison
- Description: one of the three main camps in the Auschwitz concentration camp system
- Also known as: “Auschwitz III”, “Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp”, “KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz”, “Monowitz”, and “Monowitz-Buna”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dwory and Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka.
Dwory
Railway station
Photo: Dariusz Sieczkowski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dwory is a railway station, which is situated 1½ km north of Monowitz concentration camp.
Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka
Church
Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka is situated 2½ km south of Monowitz concentration camp.
Włosienica train stop
Railway stop
Photo: Mathieu Mars, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Włosienica train stop is a railway stop, which is situated 3 km east of Monowitz concentration camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gromiec and Stawy Monowskie.
Gromiec
Village
Photo: Pufacz, Public domain.
Gromiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Libiąż, within Chrzanów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Gromiec is situated 3 km north of Monowitz concentration camp.
Stawy Monowskie
Village
Stawy Monowskie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Stawy Monowskie is situated 3½ km east of Monowitz concentration camp.
Monowitz concentration camp
- Categories: concentration camp, labor camp, and government building
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Monowitz concentration camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معسكر اعتقال مونوفيتس”
- Belarusian: “Асьвенцім III Монавіц”
- Belarusian: “Аўшвіц III Монавіц”
- Bulgarian: “Аушвиц III Моновиц”
- Catalan: “Camp de concentració de Monowitz”
- Chinese: “奧斯維辛第三集中營”
- Chinese: “莫诺维茨集中营”
- Chinese: “莫諾維茨集中營”
- Czech: “Auschwitz III - Monowitz”
- Czech: “Auschwitz III – Monowitz”
- Czech: “Auschwitz III”
- Czech: “Monowitz-Buna”
- Czech: “Monowitz”
- Dutch: “Auschwitz III-Monowitz”
- Dutch: “Auschwitz III”
- Dutch: “Auschwitz-Monowitz”
- Finnish: “Auschwitz III”
- Finnish: “Monowitz”
- French: “Buna-Monowitz”
- French: “Monowitz-Buna”
- Galician: “Campo de concentración de Monowitz”
- Galician: “Monowitz”
- German: “Auschwitz III”
- German: “Auschwitz-Monowitz”
- German: “KL Monowitz”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Monowitz”
- German: “KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz”
- German: “KZ Auschwitz-Monowitz”
- German: “KZ Monowitz”
- Greek: “Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Μονόβιτς”
- Hebrew: “אושוויץ III”
- Hebrew: “אושוויץ מונוביץ”
- Hebrew: “אושוויץ-מונוביץ”
- Hebrew: “מונוביץ”
- Hungarian: “Monowice”
- Hungarian: “Monowitzi koncentrációs tábor”
- Indonesian: “Kamp konsentrasi Monowitz”
- Italian: “campo di lavoro di Monowitz”
- Italian: “Campo di lavoro di Monowitz”
- Italian: “Monowitz”
- Japanese: “アウシュヴィッツ第3強制収容所モノヴィッツ”
- Japanese: “アウシュヴィッツ第三収容所モノヴィッツ”
- Japanese: “アウシュヴィッツ第三強制収容所モノヴィッツ”
- Malay: “Kem tahanan Monowitz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Auschwitz III Monowitz”
- Norwegian: “Monowitz”
- Persian: “اردوگاه کار اجباری مونوویتس”
- Polish: “Auschwitz III – Monowitz”
- Polish: “Auschwitz III”
- Polish: “Monowitz”
- Russian: “Аушвиц III Моновиц”
- Russian: “Освенцим III Моновиц”
- Serbian: “Концентрациони логор Моновиц”
- Spanish: “Auschwitz Monowitz”
- Swedish: “Auschwitz III”
- Swedish: “Monowitz”
- Ukrainian: “Аушвіц III Мановіц”
- Vietnamese: “Trại tập trung Monowitz”
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