3096

3096 is a natural number that is widely associated with the memoir 3096 Tage (3096 Days) by Austrian survivor Natascha Kampusch. The title refers to the duration of her captivity after she was abducted in August 1998 and held for 3,096 days before her escape in November 2006. The book provides a first-person account of the eight-year period and its aftermath.

The German-language memoir was published in 2009 under the title 3096 Tage; an English translation, titled 3096 Days, followed in 2010.

Beyond recounting events, the work discusses themes of captivity, trauma, resilience, and media exposure, and has been cited in discussions about missing-child cases, victim rights, and journalistic ethics. The publication contributed to public conversation about how such cases are handled by authorities, media, and families, and it remains a notable example within contemporary true-crime and survivor memoirs.

In mathematics, 3096 is a composite number with prime factorization 2^3 × 3^2 × 43. It serves here primarily as a specific numeric marker associated with Kampusch’s captivity narrative, but it also appears in ordinary arithmetic and counting contexts.