Bobrek was a subcamp of 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 and held approximately 250-300 prisoners who were used as slave labor to produce electrical parts for aircraft and U-boat submarines. The commandant of the camp was SS-Scharführer Hermann Buch.Artur Hojan & Cameron Munro (2017), Bobrek concentration camp., Tiergartenstrasse4 Association.

Evacuation 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 concentration camp. While in Buchenwald, the former Bobrek workers were sought out by Siemens-Schuckert executives, who had them transported to the Siemens-Schuckert factory in Siemensstadt, a suburb of Berlin.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 Edelheit & Edelheit, History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary,

See also List of subcamps of Auschwitz

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