Translation of "Arbeitskommando" in English

17 August 1925), survived because he had been included within a work commando.

You will know how people die in a labor camp after four weeks.

We were holed up in a labor camp working for a powder mill.

The prisoners were organised into small work groups with specific responsibilities.

The day before, two men from a labor team had escaped.

I was assigned to the working commando 'kitchen' in Auschwitz Birkenau.

From the beginning work in the brickworks was to be seen as a punishment.

During spring 1943, a savage typhus epidemic ravaged the Jewish prisoners.

For a long time a work group was busy every day digging out mass graves.

In charge of each working group was a Kapo, chosen from among the prisoners.

The SS and Trawnikis stayed in a separate area, the Jewish work command too.

Labeled with the inmate number 87112 he was assigned to work in the labor battalion distributing clothes.

In the first phase the Jewish work brigade consisted of 100-150 men. In the second phase, a total of 500 prisoners in Camps I and II were utilised.

Next the chambers were opened, and a Jewish work commando had to take the corpses to a grave already dug near the gas chambers on the grounds of the camp.

Abraham Krzepicki recounted how, on being instructed to clear the Schlauch at Treblinka (the path leading to the gas chambers), his group of workers found "a veritable windfall of banknotes which people had torn up and thrown away before they died."

Contrary to other German camps, the victims here allegedly did not even have the chance to survive in some work commando.

Without even taking into account that there would also have to have been room among all these items for the labor commando to go about its work, the requisite area of approximately 4,100 m2 did not exist between the building and the ditch by the fence.

The cards for political, criminal, homosexual or religious prisoners include information about their hometown, marital status, labor detail and transfers to satellite camps, as well as their arrival date and prisoner category.

The living had to wait outdoors in all kinds of weather, rain, snow, wind or intense heat, for the right to return to their hut or go off in a work kommando.

The other day two boys, aged 15 and 16, had escaped from the labor team and had been brought back to the camp by their own German Communist father, as it had been made known everywhere that anyone found to be harboring the fugitives would be executed.

On August 20, 1945 I and 30 other comrades were sent away from Rabstein and posted to a labor team.

One Czech gendarmerie subordinate who later served as guard of my labor team called them criminals who had murdered countless Czech gendarmes when the latter had tried to bring order to the chaos reigning in those days.