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A map showing the location of Auschwitz plus information about how to get there and where to stay. The Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz is located in Oswiecim Poland. Information about Oswiecim is at Oswiecim Poland. Oswiecim is located in the Malopolska region in Southern Poland. It is about 38 km Southeast of Katowice and 65 km West Of Krakow. You get to Oswiecim generally by passing through Krakow.
It was set up by the SS making use of old Austro-Hungarian cavalry barracks built in a mock Alpine style. In 1941-42 it was expanded to include an extermination (death) camp and women's forced labour camp at Birkenau (also known as Auschwitz II). Monowitz (Auschwitz III) was about four miles from the main site. It was a chemicals factory - a private entreprise concentration camp owned by I-G Farben, but the guards were SS men. Altogether, Auschwitz had about 45 satellite camps. Estimates of the numbers killed in the Auschwitz comples vary slightly.