Work Camp/Arbeitskommando 565 - need help.

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  1. ianjardine

    ianjardine Member

    Hi

    Found another record (see image) of my dad Royal Marine John Jardine CH/X 100196, POW 6829 being at a Work Camp or Arbeitskommando, believed to be a farm.

    I'm at a loss to find anything about it though.....can anyone help me out?

    Regards

    Ian


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  2. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    From google:
    http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/Work_camps.htm
    E565 - E565
    Stalag VIIIB/344
    Arthurgrube
    Germany

    Then searching for Arthurgrube:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trzebinia
    During the Second World War the village known as Arthurgrube, later renamed Sierza Wodna (and now incorporated into Trzebinia) was the base for a working party (E565) of British and other Commonwealth prisoners of war, under the administration of Stalag VIIIB/344 at Ɓambinowice (then know as Lamsdorf) in Poland. Their work was in a coal mine, and their living accommodation was in wooden huts by the river. More Lamsdorf prisoners of war transferred in January 1944 from Ottmachau in Upper Silesia to an Auschwitz detachment at the Trzebinia oil refinery. All 45 members of the detachment were from Commonwealth countries. A document at the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau confirming arrival of POW Work Detachment E738 at Trzebinia is dated 25 February 1944. In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive and advanced from the east, the prisoners were marched westward in the so-called Long March or Death March. Many of them died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. The lucky ones got far enough to the west to be liberated by the allied armies after some four months of travelling on foot in appalling conditions.

    You may need to check further
    TD
     

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