Memorial and Martyrdom Sites

Address:Więźniów Oświęcimia Str.
32-600 Oświęcim
1.4 km from the centre
GPS: 50°01’53″N 19°12’15″E

„Mass grave for about 700 prisoners of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp murdered during the final days of the camp’s existence”.
In February 1945, the bodies of the victims of KL Auschwitz murdered during the evacuation of the camp were buried here, in a mass grave.

Address:
Chemików Str.

32-600 Oświęcim

2.4 km from the centre

GPS: 50°02’02″N 19°15’13″E Unveiled in January 1966, it commemorates the death of 30.000 inmates working in I.G. farben factory – producting  methanol  and rubber – between 1941-1945. (On the 31st October 1942 a subcamp – lager IV, later called Auschwitz III – Aussenlager and since November 1944 – the Konzentrazionslager Monowitz).

A sub-camp and from November 1943 a concentration camp to which all the ?industrial? sub-camps in the Auschwitz complex were subordinated. It was established at the site of the Polish village of Monowice, whose inhabitants were expelled and buildings razed. The location had previously been envisioned as one of ten barracks-camps planned for compulsory laborers for IG Farben. The first of approximately 2,000 prisoners were brought there from Auschwitz I at the end of October 1942, after which the prisoner population rose to 6,000 in 1943, and almost 11,000 in the late summer of 1944.

(source: http://auschwitz.org)

Address:

Obozowa 7 Str.

32-620 Brzeszcze

8.3 km from the Museum Auschwitz I A sub-camp located in the village of Jawiszowice (in German: Jawischowitz). The prisoners held there worked in two shafts of the Brzeszcze coal mine located in the localities of Jawiszowice and Brzeszcze. The camp began functioning in mid-August 1942 when 150 French Jews arrived under an agreement between the WVHA and the Reichswerke Hermann Göring, which owned the mine. In terms of the number of prisoners, Jawischowitz was one of the largest Auschwitz sub-camps. In June 1944, it held 2,500 prisoners, mostly Jews from Poland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Hungary. There were also Poles, Russians, and Germans in the sub-camp.

(source: http://auschwitz.org)

Address: 

Piwniczna Str 

32-600 Brzezinka

50°01’51.6″N 19°11’15.9″E
Judenrampe – railroad tracks situated between  Auschwitz and Birkenau. It was used to unload the wagons, in which prisoners, mostly Jewish, were transported 

from all over occupied Europe. On Judenrampe there were held selection of victims who were separated into two groups – the first was destined to hard work, the another was slated for immediate extermination.  Currently, on the renovated in 2004 rail ramp, there are two authentic railway wagons becomming from the war period.