Auschwitz III (Monowitz)

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 ; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps".
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: one of the three main camps in the Auschwitz concentration camp system
  • Also known as: “Auschwitz III”, “Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp”, “Buna-Monowitz”, “KL Monowitz”, “Konzentrationslager Monowitz”, “KZ Auschwitz-Monowitz”, “KZ Monowitz”, “Monowitz concentration camp”, “Асьвенцім III Монавіц”, “אושוויץ III”, “אושוויץ-מונוביץ”, “מונוביץ”, “アウシュヴィッツ第3強制収容所モノヴィッツ”, “アウシュヴィッツ第三強制収容所モノヴィッツ”, and “奧斯維辛第三集中營”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Dwory and Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka.

Railway station
Photo: Dariusz Sieczkowski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station.

Church
Photo: Frankee, CC BY 2.5.

Church
Photo: Januszk57, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zaborze and Gromiec.

Village
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is a in the administrative district… is situated 3½ km west of Auschwitz III (Monowitz).

Village
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is a in the administrative district… is situated 3½ km north of Auschwitz III (Monowitz).

Village
is a in the administrative… is situated 3½ km east of Auschwitz III (Monowitz).

Auschwitz III (Monowitz)

Latitude
50.0275° or 50° 1′ 39″ north
Longitude
19.28753° or 19° 17′ 15″ east
Open location code
9F2X27HQ+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3506723797
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q700356
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Auschwitz III (Monowitz)” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “معسكر اعتقال مونوفيتس”
  • Belarusian: “Аўшвіц III Монавіц”
  • Bulgarian: “Аушвиц III Моновиц”
  • Catalan: “Camp de concentració de Monowitz”
  • Chinese: “莫諾維茨集中營”
  • Chinese: “莫诺维茨集中营”
  • Czech: “Auschwitz III - Monowitz”
  • Czech: “Auschwitz III – Monowitz”
  • Dutch: “Auschwitz III-Monowitz”
  • Dutch: “Auschwitz-Monowitz”
  • Finnish: “Monowitz”
  • French: “Monowitz-Buna”
  • Galician: “Campo de concentración de Monowitz”
  • Galician: “Monowitz”
  • German: “Auschwitz III (Monowitz)”
  • German: “KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz”
  • Greek: “Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Μονόβιτς”
  • Hebrew: “אושוויץ מונוביץ”
  • Hungarian: “Monowice”
  • Hungarian: “Monowitzi koncentrációs tábor”
  • Indonesian: “Kamp konsentrasi Monowitz”
  • Italian: “campo di lavoro di Monowitz”
  • Italian: “Campo di lavoro di Monowitz”
  • Japanese: “アウシュヴィッツ第三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 (Monowitz)”
  • Russian: “Аушвиц III Моновиц”
  • Russian: “Освенцим III Моновиц”
  • Serbian: “Концентрациони логор Моновиц”
  • Spanish: “Auschwitz Monowitz”
  • Swedish: “Monowitz”
  • Ukrainian: “Аушвіц III Мановіц”
  • Vietnamese: “Trại tập trung Monowitz”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Odnoga and Kobyleniec.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Granicznik and Grabowiec Duży.

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