Sources
Brodski, Efim: Die Lebenden kämpfen. Die illegale Organisation Brüderliche Zusammenarbeit der Kriegsgefangenen (BSW), Berlin (Ost) 1968.
Ivan Korbukov (1.11.1918 Wigurina Poljana/Smolensk – 4.9.1944 Dachau Concentration Camp)
Activist in the ‘Fraternal Cooperation of POWs’ (Brüderliche Zusammenarbeit der Kriegsgefangenen, BSW) resistance group
Iwan Korbukow (1918-1944) | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bayerischer Verfolgtenorganisationen (Hg.), Widerstand und Verfolgung in Bayern, 1976
Korbukov was commanded to go to military school in 1938 and participated in the Soviet attack on Finland in 1939. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was taken prisoner in the North Caucasus in August 1941. He succeeded in escaping and managed to hide in Cherkessk, but was arrested there during a raid and was sent to Germany to perform forced labor. As a ‘civilian laborer’, he was sent to Eastern workers’ labor camp no. 25 on Hofmannstraße, where he recruited among his fellow inmates for the BSW. Under the alias “Kretschet”, Korbukov became one of the most ardent operatives of the BSW and was soon a member of its ‘provisional council’. In November 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo and kept until March 8, 1944 in the Gestapo prison on Brienner Straße, where he was severely tortured. He was then brought to Dachau, further abused, and shot together with 91 other BSW members on September 4, 1944.