Gross-Rosen concentration camp
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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]
Gross-Rosen | |
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Nazi concentration camp | |
Other names | German: Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen |
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Operational | Summer of 1940 – 14 February 1945 |
Inmates | mostly Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens[1] |
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[2] |
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]