Stalag Luft VII

Bankau (Bąków), Germany (now Poland)

A Luftwaffe camp at Bankau in Upper Silesia (now Bąków, Poland), opened in mid-1944 for Allied aircrew. In January 1945, only months after it opened, its prisoners were marched west through deep snow toward Luckenwalde as the Red Army approached.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Stalag Luft VII — Wikipedia and Oliver Clutton-Brock, Footprints on the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939–1945. The text is original and has been written from factual source material.

No individual prisoners are linked to this camp yet. As survivor and POW airmen are added to the archive, their records will appear here.