Gross-Rosen concentration camp
| Gross-Rosen | |
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| Nazi concentration camp | |
Gross-Rosen entrance gate with the phrase Arbeit Macht Frei | |
| Other names | German: Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen |
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| 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.