Buna
Aj Mitchell
Buna/Monowitz Concentration Camp
In late October 1942 I.G. Farben opened its own corporate concentration camp, Buna/Monowitz, to house the predominatly Jewish prisoners who had to do force labor on the plant grounds of I.G. Auschwitz.
Auschwitz-Monowitz 3
Starting the second half of 1942, camp prisoners in Auschwitz were increasingly deployed in the German weapon industry. In 1941, the German chemical company IG Farben used slave labour to build its enormous Buna Works complex seven kilometres from the main camp.
Auschwitz-Monowitz 3
The Monowitz camp was kept until the week before the Russians liberators arrived. The last roll call of the three Auschwitz camps showed a total of 67,012 prisoners. Out of this total, more than half we're the workers in the Buna plant at Monowitz and sub-camps.