Bobrek concentration camp

Prisoners building airplane parts at Siemens-Schuckert factory at Bobrek.

Bobrek concentration camp was a subcamp of the Monowitz concentration camp located in or near Bobrek, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, and was part of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. It was built by Siemens-Schuckert near the town of Bobrek, Poland. It held approximately 250-300 prisoners who were used as slave labor to produce electrical parts for aircraft and U-boats.

Bobrek subcamp was evacuated along with the other camps in the Auschwitz complex on January 18, 1945. The prisoners were sent on a death march to a concentration camp in Gleiwitz, Poland. Many were then transported by rail to Buchenwald. While in Buchenwald, Siemens-Shukert executives sought out the former Bobrek workers and had them shipped to their factory in Siemensstadt a suburb of Berlin.^[1][2]

Commandant of the camp was SS-Scharführer Hermann Buch^[3]

References

1. Mapping trauma and its wake: autobiographic essays by pioneer trauma scholars (Psychosocial Stress Series) (Hardcover) by Charles R. Figley Publisher: Routledge (December 16, 2005) Language: English ISBN 0-415-95140-2 ISBN 978-0415951401
2. Edelheit & Edelheit, History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary, ISBN 0-8133-2240-5
3. Tiergartenstrasse4 organization

Coordinates: 50°04′N 19°16′E / 50.06°N 19.26°E