Bobrek concentration camp



Bobrek 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 predecessor 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.

Commandant of the camp was SS-Scharführer Hermann Buch