Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Gross-Rosen
Nazi concentration camp
Gross-Rosen entrance gate with the phrase Arbeit Macht Frei
Other namesGerman: Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen
Commandant
OperationalSummer of 1940 – 14 February 1945
Inmatesmostly Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens[1]
Number of inmates125,000 (in estimated 100 subcamps)
Killed40,000
Notable inmatesBoris Braun, Adam Dulęba, Franciszek Duszeńko, Heda Margolius Kovály, Władysław Ślebodziński, Simon Wiesenthal, Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft[2]

Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen, now the modern-day Rogoźnica in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland,[1] directly on the rail-line between the towns of Jawor (Jauer) and Strzegom (Striegau).[3][4] Its prisoners were mostly Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens.[1]

At its peak activity in 1944, the Gross-Rosen complex had up to 100 subcamps located in eastern Germany and in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and Poland. The population of all Gross-Rosen camps at that time accounted for 11% of the total number of inmates incarcerated in the Nazi concentration camp system.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference gross-rosen.eu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Konieczny, Alfred. Arbeitslager Bunzlau I - podoboz KL Gross Rosen (2004 ed.). Muzeum Gross-Rosen. pp. 69, 75. ISBN 83-919919-8-9.
  3. ^ The Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica. Homepage.
  4. ^ Alfred Konieczny (pl), Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust. NY: Macmillan 1990, vol. 2, pp. 623–626.

© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search