Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Gross-Rosen
Gross-Rosen
Nazi concentration camp
	Gross-Rosen entrance gate with the phrase Arbeit Macht Frei
Other names	German: Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen
Commandant	Arthur Rödl, May 1941 – September 1942; Wilhelm Gideon, September 1942 – October 1943; Johannes Hassebroek, October 1943 until evacuation;
Operational	Summer of 1940 – 14 February 1945
Inmates	mostly Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens
Number of inmates	125,000 (in estimated 100 subcamps)
Killed	40,000
Notable inmates	Boris Braun, Adam Dulęba, Franciszek Duszeńko, Heda Margolius Kovály, Władysław Ślebodziński, Simon Wiesenthal, Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft

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, directly on the rail-line between the towns of Jawor (Jauer) and Strzegom (Striegau). Its prisoners were mostly Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens.

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.

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