Bobrek · subcamp of KL Auschwitz
Record no. 28 of 45
Fragments preserved
A small Siemens subcamp near Oświęcim. Precision work, under a roof, which in camp conditions meant a better chance of survival.
Period of operation against the Auschwitz system
Distances in a straight line — approximate
Measured from the centre of the town, accurate to within a few kilometres.
Branch of industry in the register
Ironworks
From May 1944 between fifty and two hundred and thirteen men and up to fifty women assembled electrical equipment for aircraft and submarines. In January 1945 there were two hundred and thirteen men here and probably thirty eight women.
The works belonged to Siemens-Schuckertwerke GmbH, one of several German firms that ran production directly on the grounds of a subcamp.
The buildings of the former factory stand at Bobrek near Oświęcim, on the road from Oświęcim towards Chrzanow, beyond the bridge over the Vistula on the right hand side.
Neither on the works grounds nor anywhere nearby is there a plaque or a monument commemorating the prisoners of the subcamp.
Archival photographs of this place
Photographs and documents from the time the camp existed are held and made available by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.
Sources — the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, archive and historical collections · Re-Finding the Sub Camps of Auschwitz, field research by the Tiergartenstrasse4 Association 2005–2008, subcamps-auschwitz.org · field documentation by Auschwitz Subcamps.
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