The French slab of the international monument to the victims is installed on the site of Auschwitz II, between crematoria II and III. On it can be read, as on the 21 other slabs: "For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity, where the Nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women and children, mainly Jews from various countries of Europe. Auschwitz - Birkenau 1940 - 1945"