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The Gross Rosen concentration camp, located south of the town of Gross Rosen (Rogoznica) in Lower Silesia, was established as a subsidiary camp of Sachsenhausen in July 1940. In May 1941 it became an autonomous concentration camp. The increasing need to use concentration camp prisoners in armaments production led to the expansion of the Gross Rosen camp. It became the center of a vast network of more than 60 subsidiary camps. The main camp held about 10,000 prisoners, and the net of subsidiary camps in Lower Silesia (Germany) and Czechoslovakia held as many as 80,000 inmates. The prisoners of the main camp were compelled to do construction and quarry work for the SS-WVHA and the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH. In 1942 the deportation of Jewish prisoners from different parts of Poland to the Gross Rosen camp began. From January 1944 to early February 1945 the camp received more than 100,000 prisoners. Beside Polish Jews, there was an influx of transports from Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Italy, the USSR, and other European countries occupied by Germany. In total, 239 transports arrived at Gross Rosen. There were two networks of forced labor camps for Jews in Gross Rosen. The first comprised more than 20 camps that were part of the Organization Schmelt system in Silesia. The second was a series of subsidiary camps for more than 10,000 Hungarian Jews. The evacuation of the main camp began in early February 1945. The Gross Rosen inmates were transferred to Mittelbau-Dora, Flossenbürg, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. The Soviet Army liberated Gross Rosen on February 13, 1945. (en-US)

Fonte

in: Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager, Hrsg. Herbert et. al., Bd. II, pp. 1113-1128. pp.1113-1128

Termini più generici

• Bassa Slesia (Prussia, Germania : Province)