(Arolsen Archives)
(Arolsen Archives
Piotr Proch was born in 1912 in the small Polish village of Adamówek. In the early 1940s he, his wife Irena, and their three children lived in Warsaw. He earned a living as a truck driver and carpenter before he was arrested in December 1942 and sent to the Lublin-Majdanek Concentration Camp afterwards.
He was transferred to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp at the beginning of August 1943, and on 28 August sent to the Dora subcamp on the first transport. In January 1944 he found himself back at Lublin-Majdanek, among a group of 1,000 severely ill and weakened inmates who were transferred there from Dora. With this transport, the SS deported inmates whom they no longer considered fit for work.
He came to the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp via Auschwitz in 1944. In the Flossenbürg subcamp in Lengenfeld (Saxony) he had to do forced labour in an underground armaments factory of the aircraft manufacturer Junkers from October 1944. After the war, Proch lived in Szczecin.
