![Bombing raid over part of the Auschwitz camp. Auschwitz, Poland, August 1944. [LCID: 64215]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/dc06ea55-152a-4592-b0f1-c5e1900680dd.jpeg)
Aerial photograph showing an American B-17 bomber over the villages of Monowice and Poręba Wielka in the vicinity of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex in German-occupied Poland. The United States military targeted the I. G. Farben synthetic rubber and fuel plant, located adjacent to the Auschwitz III camp (also called Monowitz or Buna). This photograph was taken on August 20, 1944.
We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies, Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, the Claims Conference, and BMF for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of all donors.
