Lager IV "Auschwitz III" / "Monowitz-Dorfrand" / "Buna" WWII German Nazi Labor Camp (Oświęcim)

 Second World War 1939-1945, place with historical importance, Holocaust, concentration camp, interesting place

Facilities for many of the Auschwitz I and II (death camps) prisoners deemed fit for physical labor (only about 30% of the prisoners ---the rest were gassed shortly after leaving the railcars). The fit were sent here to be killed more slowly: worked to death as slave labor at the sprawling IG Farben / Buna Werke industrial plant just to the northwest. Such workers usually died of malnutrition, disease, or of being sent "nach Birkenau" (back to Auschwitz II Birkenau to be gassed after being worked to exhaustion and frail health). Better-known survivors of this camp include writers Elie Weisel and Primo Levi.

For the main German death camp Auschwitz see Auschwitz II Birkenau:
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And the smaller original Auschwitz I:
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(Note: the black-and-white aerial photo unusually has north at the bottom of the image.)