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Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp


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he Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp was initially organized as a subcamp for Sachsenhausen. It became an independent camp in 1941. Prisoners were sent to work in the nearby granite quarry, and as the camp expanded, many prisoners worked in the factories of several subcamps. The most famous of Gross-Rosen's subcamps was Brunnlitz where the workers of Oskar Schindler's textile factory were interned. Overall, Schindler saved over a thousand Jews who worked in this camp. Gross-Rosen was a large and very typical Nazi concentration camp. In 1944, Gross-Rosen reached its peak population, holding eleven percent of all Nazi prisoners in the main and subcamps. When the Soviet Army began moving west, thousands of Jews were transferred from Auschwitz and other Polish camps to Gross-Rosen where they were interned until the Soviets liberated the camp in February 1945.

Other: Prisoners selected for euthanasia program killed
Dec 12, 1941
Other: Several thousand Soviet Prisoners of War executed
Oct 1, 1941
Other: Gross-Rosen becomes independent concentration camp
May 1, 1941
Other: Typhus Epidemic kills more than 1,000 prisoners
Jan 17, 1942
Other: Gross-Rosen established as subcamp Sachsenhausan
Aug 2, 1940
Other: Camp holds over 75,000 prisoners with 100 subcamps
Jan 15, 1945
Other: Soviet forces liberate Gross-Rosen
Feb 13, 1945
Other: Schindler's Factory in Brunnlitz becomes subcamp
Oct 21, 1944
Other: The SS order the evacuation of the camp
Feb 8, 1945
Prisoners: Total Number of Prisoners
At least 120,000
Prisoners: Total Number of Deaths
At least 40,000
Camp Commandants: Arthur Rodl
1941
Camp Commandants: Wilhelm Gideon
1942
Camp Commandants: Johannes Hassebroek
1943
Location: City
Gross-Rosen
Country
Poland

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