Memoriale Auschwitz III (Monowitz), Oswiecim

Where do we meet? Straszewskiego 14, K+R Bus Bay (next to Hotel Maltański) Duration: 7-8h (3,5h guided tour + bus transfer + break included) PLEASE ARRIVE 15 MIN BEFORE THE ACTIVITY STARTS. The sub-camps of Auschwitz were part of the Nazi concentration camp system that operated during World War II. These sub-camps, located around the main camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, served various purposes, including economic, industrial, and strategic. The sub-camps of Auschwitz bear painful witness to human cruelty and suffering, and visiting them is not only a journey through history but also an opportunity for reflection on the past and an understanding of the importance of combating hatred and intolerance. It is worth noting that visiting the sub-camps of Auschwitz is possible only with All In Krakow. Our company provides comprehensive care and professional guidance so that you can safely and fully understand the significance of these places. Join our group to explore history and commemorate the victims of the Holocaust together.

Experience the story of lesser-known places that belonged to the huge Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex on this unique guided tour. Visit the original places that make up the Auschwitz Zone. See the buildings with exhibitions about their history during the operation of the huge Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex. Visit the Judenrampe, where the prisoners first arrived, and a brutal selection between slave labor and death was made. See the Penal Company of Women, which delves into the history of the brutal repression they were subjected to. Learn about the massacre of the French Jewish women. Understand the key role that concentration camps played in the structure of the chemical industry during World War II by discovering the exhibition of KL Auschwitz III—Monowitz and chemical companies BAYER, BASF, and AGF. Learn the details of the forced labor that prisoners of KL Monowitz were subjected to. Visit the KL Auschwitz-Jawischowitz Subcamp and see the camp bath building, which is a remnant of KL Auschwitz-Jawischowitz. You will also see the mine the prisoners worked in - Jawiszowice mine.

Discover a lesser-known but deeply moving part of Auschwitz history on this alternative guided tour. The tour starts and ends in Krakow, with comfortable transportation provided to and from the memorial sites. This experience does not include a visit to Auschwitz I or Auschwitz II-Birkenau, but instead focuses on important surrounding sites connected to the history of the victims and the development of the camp complex. Visit the memorial to the final victims of Auschwitz and a mass grave of 700 prisoners shot during the camp evacuation in January 1945. Explore the area of the so-called “camp extension,” which housed new SS barracks, the last women’s camp, and the site of the final public execution. See the first crematorium and gas chamber, the former villa of the camp commandant, and the gravel pits—sites of punishment and execution for clergy and members of the Polish intelligentsia. The tour also includes stops at the pre-war theater later used to store Zyklon B, the Polish Ramp (first prisoner transport platform), and the Old Jewish Ramp, the main selection site for European Jews. Learn about the “Interest Zone” through maps and aerial photographs from 1944. In Birkenau, see the infamous Death Gate and the main SS barracks. The extermination zone includes Bunker 1 (Red House), Bunker 2 (White House), the remains of dressing rooms for victims, and a cemetery of Soviet POWs. View the Sauna building used for prisoner disinfection and belongings processing. The tour concludes at the memorial to victims of Auschwitz-Monowitz (Auschwitz III), offering a broader understanding of the camp system and the scale of the atrocities.