IG Farben Building

This guide to the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt centers on Norbert Wollheim, a Berlin father whose wife, sister, and young son were deported and murdered in March 1943, while he was sent instead to Monowitz, the camp IG Farben built to staff its Buna rubber plant beside Auschwitz. It follows his roughly two years of forced labor, his escape from a death march in January 1945, and his emigration to New York, where in 1950 he took an unprecedented legal step against the company whose headquarters still stands behind you. The tower's long curved marble front was built as IG Farben's own corporate headquarters.