Monowitz (also called Monowice or Auschwitz III) is a subcamp or one of the three main camps of Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz. It was established in October 1942 in Poland.
Monowitz was primarily a labour camp, though with a strong extermination component. It held approximately 12000 prisoners, the great majority of whom were Jewish, but also carried non-Jewish criminals and...
A reconnaissance picture of the Auschwitz-Birkenau-Comlex (concentration camp) from June 26th 1944.
Auschwitz is the name loosely used to identify three main Nazi German concentration camps and 45-50 sub-camps. The name is derived from the Germanized form of the nearby Polish town of Oświęcim.
The three main camps were:
- Auschwitz I, the origina...
Aerial view of the Dubová refinery, taken on August 20, 1944 before the bombing, which started at 10:48.
460+ B-24s and B-17s, some fighter-escorted, bomb the airfield and marshalling yard at Szolnok, Hungary and oil refineries at Dubova, Czechoslovakia, and Czechowice and Auschwitz, Poland.
Archaeological Sites in Albania belonging to ancient Illyrian tribes. It includes different sites but of course it is incomplete because there are other sites that may be added later on. These sites are worth visiting.
Since May 2004 when Poland came to the E.U., border inspection between Poland and Belarus has become more painful. You can clearly see the many cars on the right waiting to enter Poland.
Sites of all silos and connected Airforce Bases in the USA with Atlas, Trident, Minuteman and Peacekeeper missiles. Also locations of test-sites, training-bases, storage bases and destruction site.
At each AFB and sites you'll find explanation links.
From here on october 18th. 1941 (1251 jews), more than 55000 Berlin jews were sent to the concentration camps of Theresienstadt, Riga, Lodz, Warzaw and later end 1942 directly to the death camp of Auschwitz where they were murdered from this station. To Auschwitz alone drowearound 35 trains with 17000 jews.
Construction on Auschwitz II (Birkenau) began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. It was designed to hold several categories of prisoners, and to function as an extermination camp in the context of Himmler's preparations for the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.
Many people know the Birkenau camp simply as "Auschwitz"; it was larger than Auschwitz ...